Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer Tolbert Roberts

Very Short Introductions #272

Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction

Jennifer Tolbert Roberts

145 pages digital 2011

5 editions

nonfiction biography history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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Hailed by Cicero as "the father of history," Herodotus was both a critical thinker and a lively storyteller, a traveler who was both tourist and anthropologist. Like Homer, he set out to memorialize great deeds in words, in particular, the wars be...

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