The Loeb Classical Library: The Persian Wars, Volume III : Books 5–7

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The Loeb Classical Library: The Persian Wars, Volume III : Books 5–7Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time in Athens, and in 443 went with other colonists to the new city Thurii (in South Italy), where he

Book C1 - B (individual ISBN 9789607779854)

Includes extensive quotations in English

The commentary explains points of historical and literary importance

The volume is a companion to The Plays of Sophocles and The Plays of Aeschylus (both by Alex Garvie) also available in second editions from Bloomsbury

and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate

medicine and politics

but also of his own weaknesses of character

while the Apology is his robust rebuttal of the charges against him

On Husbandry

In Theogony

on his satyr-dramas

These speeches

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