Bücher von Herodotus

Chrestomathia Herodotea est liber qui continet opera Herodoti, historici Graeci saeculi quinti a.C.n. In hoc libro, Herodotus narrat res gestas Persarum et Graecorum in bellis quae inter eos gesta sunt, inter quas celeberrima est pugna apud Thermopylas. In additione ad res gestas, Herodotus describit etiam mores et instituta Persarum et aliarum gentium quas visitavit in itinere suo. Haec Chrestomathia Herodotea edita est anno MDCCCLIV.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

The Second Persian War is a historical account written by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. The book describes the conflict between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the early 5th century BCE. The war began when the Persian king, Xerxes I, launched a massive invasion of Greece in 480 BCE. The book details the battles of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea, as well as the political and cultural factors that led to the war. Herodotus provides a comprehensive overview of the Persian Empire, its military tactics, and its political structure. He also describes the Greek city-states and their alliances, as well as the leadership of figures such as Themistocles and Leonidas. The Second Persian War is considered a seminal work in the field of ancient history, and it continues to be studied and analyzed by scholars today.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

"The Histories", written in the fifth century BC, is a engaging mix of precise historical and cultural information, humour, myths and legends. It is the first masterpiece of non-fiction, and establishes Herodutus as the first historian and the first ethnographer.

Reginald Walter Macan (1848-1941) published this three-part edition of the last books of Herodotus in 1908. Particularly valuable for its introduction, commentary, maps, appendices and indexes, it remains relevant in classical historiography. The two parts of Volume 1 contain Books 7-9 in Greek with apparatus.

Book IX represents the conclusion and climax to Herodotus' Histories. This commentary, the first in English solely on Book IX in over a century, provides a Greek text with detailed philological, literary, and historical notes that incorporate the results of recent scholarly research on Greek history and historiography.

First published in 1889, this edition of the sixth book of Herodotos by E. S. Shuckburgh has been a long-established classic. The original Greek text is provided with an introduction, exhaustive explanatory notes, an index of historical and geographic references and illustrative maps. This book will be an excellent resource for students and amateur readers of Greek.

Book VIII of Herodotus' Histories covers the early part of the unsuccessful invasion of Greece by Xerxes, king of Persia. Its centre-piece is the unexpected but crucial Greek naval victory at Salamis. This edition provides all the help required by a reader with little experience of Greek.

One of the most important works of history in Western literature, by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors, Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led to the great Persian Wars of 490-479 BC, but also provides fascinating material about the mainland Greek states in the sixth century BC. This is an up-to-date edition of and commentary on the Greek text of the book, providing extensive help with the Greek, basic historical information and clear maps, as well as lucid and insightful historical and literary interpretation of the text. The volume is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, teachers and scholars.