The history of Herodotus — Volume 1
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To ask other readers questions about The history of Herodotus — Volume 1 , please sign up. Be the first to ask a question about The history of Herodotus — Volume 1. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jan 06, Noah rated it really liked it Shelves: In Volume 1, the reader is taken through the history of Egypt and the near east.
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Herodotus cites his sources and expresses his disbelief at some of the history that he is told, but he relates everything as he has seen it himself or heard it from each of the peoples that he researches. Aug 03, Sotiris Makrygiannis rated it it was amazing Shelves: I'm finished with The history of Herodotus: This is not a historical book but also a geographers view, a sociologist view, will even dare to say the first spy book? Brilliant work and easily you can see that many of the Greek customers are borrowed by the cultures that lived by and got assimilated.
Because Greek culture is like rivers ending up into one big lake. Oct 27, Ci rated it really liked it. Historians think this book is written around BC.
Raiding parties, slave trades of conquests, consultation of oracles, beliefs in revelations in dreams, human sacrifices, killing and saving of royal infants, unholy banquets and subsequent revenges, are much of the dramas of ancient living. The brutality of conquests is the main theme, unapologized at initiation, regretted only for its defeats. Nearly no accounts are devoted for what we now considered social-economic development. Instead, war-making to raid others was the only form of survival. The most fertile land with riches in humans and battles were the most to fear.
The wry psychology was laid down as: The cycle of violence was both aggressive, and preemptively defensive. The translation by Rawlinson is eloquent and lucid.
I will continue to the Book 2. Dec 27, David Conrad rated it really liked it. Herodotus's skepticism of the supernatural and received tradition make him a trustworthy teller of ancient Mediterranean political history; his frequent digressions make for a sometimes colorful, if noticably long, read. Aug 30, Matthew rated it really liked it. This is fantastic historical information written in a quite engaging way. I have to admit though, and I did not realize an historical work really needed one, there is no real start nor end to it.
A kills B kills C kills D etc. By the end - when a persian mutilated himself as part of a ruse for Darius to retake Babylon, I had had my fill. While i do not regret starting and finishing this, i will not be reading volumes 2 or 3 anytime soon. Which is a pity, because there is so much drama and lore l This is fantastic historical information written in a quite engaging way. Which is a pity, because there is so much drama and lore lain down with an engaging and talented style.
Oct 02, Anne rated it it was amazing. Everything that has ever happened has already happened.
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Oh and what better could a woman want than to see her sons die in battle while they're still young and pretty? Aug 12, Sandy K rated it liked it Shelves: There was the nagging sensation that I probably should be reading a better translation than the free out-of-print one on the Kindle.
I think I'll try someone else for the second half. A very good look at mankind in general. Even back then men wanted and strived for the same things. Well written and easy to understand for the most part. Moreover, it established the genre and study of history in the Western world despite the existence of historical records and chronicles beforehand. The Histories also stands as one of the first accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire , as well as the events and causes of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Herodotus portrays the conflict as one between the forces of slavery the Persians on the one hand, and freedom the Athenians and the confederacy of Greek city-states which united against the invaders on the other.
The Histories was at some point divided into the nine books that appear in modern editions, conventionally named after the nine Muses. Herodotus claims to have traveled extensively around the ancient world , conducting interviews and collecting stories for his book, almost all of which covers territories of the Persian Empire. At the beginning of The Histories , Herodotus sets out his reasons for writing it:. This is the showing-forth of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus , so that neither what has come to be from man in time might become faded, nor that great and wondrous deeds, those shown forth by Greeks and those by barbarians , might be without their glory; and together with all this, also through what cause they warred with each other.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Steganography The Padaei Historical novels sourcing material from Herodotus: A modern survey of the evidence finds only occasional reports of sandpipers "removing leeches from the mouth and gular scutes and snapping at insects along the reptile's body. The History , translated by David Gren.