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The Histories
Narrator: Bernard Mayes
Unabridged: 28 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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.