The Histories, Herodotus Translated by George Rawlinson
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The Histories

Narrator: Bernard Mayes

Unabridged: 28 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/21/2011

Category: History


Synopsis

Herodotus is not only the father of the art and the science of historical writing but also one of the Western traditions most compelling storytellers. He wrote these accounts of the fifthcenturyBC wars between the Greeks and Persians with a continuous awareness of the mythic and the wonderful, while laying bare the intricate human entanglements at their core. In the instinctive empiricism that took him searching over much of the known world for information, in the care he took with sources and historical evidence, in his freedom from intolerance and prejudice, Herodotus virtually defined the rational, humane spirit that is the enduring legacy of Greek civilization.

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