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Herodotus: Histories Book V

Authors

Edited by
Simon Hornblower
, All Souls College, Oxford
Published 2013

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One of the most important works of history in Western literature, by the freshest and liveliest of all classical Greek prose authors, Herodotus's Histories is also a key text for the study of ancient Greece and the Persian Empire. Covering a central and widely studied period of Greek history, Book V not only describes the revolt of the east Greeks against their Persian masters, which led to the great Persian Wars of 490–479 BC, but also provides fascinating material about…

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  • Enables students to appreciate Herodotus in the original Greek by helping them overcome the challenges of language and idiom posed by his work
  • Commentary explains and situates all episodes in a clear historical framework, enabling readers to appreciate the work as a historical document as well as a literary text
  • Provides full and helpful discussions of the ways in which literary theory and the rhetoric of narrative and of speeches can be applied to the text

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