Herodotus

The Ancient Empires of the East. Herodotus I.-iii. with Notes, Introductions, and Appendices.

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Ancient Empires of the East. Herodotus I.-III. With notes, introductions, and appendices, by A. H. Sayce. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this series include lectures, compiled sketches, and chronological discourses on Greece, Rome, and other early European and African civilisations. The collection also has a selection of physical and classical geography texts. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Herodotus.; Sayce, Archibald Henry.; 1883 xl, 492 p.; 8 . 9027.c.12. Contributor Bio:  Herodotus Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, in Asia Minor, in the fifth century B. C. Called the Father of History, he wrote the first comprehensive attempt at secular narrative history, long considered the starting point of Western historical writing. The focus of his Histories is the Persian Wars, but he includes fascinating digressions on the histories of Bablyon, Egypt, and Thrace, as well as studies of the pyramids and various historical events. He was the first writer to evaluate historical, geographical, and archaeological material critically.