The Histories
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
12.07.2026
Herausgeber
The Lyceum PressVerlag
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KdpSeitenzahl
88
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/0,5 cm
Gewicht
113 g
Übersetzt von
The Lyceum Press
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798186888338
The book that invented history-retold for the modern reader.
More than two thousand years ago, Herodotus of Halicarnassus set out to understand how the greatest empire of his age came to war with the fiercely independent cities of Greece. The result was The Histories: an extraordinary journey through war, politics, religion, geography, myth, custom, ambition, cruelty, courage, and the strange turns of human fortune.
This edition from The Lyceum Press presents Herodotus in a radically compact, accessible prose retelling designed to preserve the movement, curiosity, and storytelling power of the original work.
The story begins with Croesus, the fabulously wealthy king of Lydia, and the warning of the Athenian sage Solon: no man can be called happy until his life is complete. From there comes the rise of Cyrus the Great and the Persian Empire, the conquest of Egypt by Cambyses, the strange contest that brings Darius to the throne, the Persian expedition into Scythia, the Ionian Revolt, and finally the great collision between Persia and Greece.
Along the way appear some of the most famous episodes of the ancient world:
- Croesus and the Delphic Oracle
- Cyrus the Great and Queen Tomyris
- Egyptian mummification and the mysteries of the Nile
- Darius and the mutilated Zopyrus
- The runner Pheidippides and the Battle of Marathon
- Xerxes confronting the Spartan king Demaratus
- Leonidas and the stand at Thermopylae
- Themistocles and the naval victory at Salamis
- The final defeat of the Persian invasion at Plataea and Mycale
But Herodotus never tells only the story of kings and battles. He pauses to ask how other peoples live. He describes Egyptian religion and medicine, Scythian burial customs, distant lands, extraordinary animals, political arguments, prophecies, rumors, and stories he openly admits he does not believe. He gives competing accounts and allows the reader to decide between them.
That restless curiosity is what made The Histories something new.
Herodotus called his work an historia-an inquiry. From that word comes our word history.
This is not a line-by-line translation. It is an original prose retelling intended for readers who want to experience the narrative architecture, unforgettable characters, great battles, strange inquiries, and distinctive voice of Herodotus without first confronting the enormous length of the complete work.
The result is an introduction not merely to the Persian Wars, but to one of the foundational books of Western literature.
From the wealth of Croesus to the battlefield at Marathon, from the pass at Thermopylae to the waters of Salamis, Herodotus returns again and again to the same question:
What happens to human beings when wealth, power, ambition, chance, and fate collide?
And in the final pages, the founder of the Persian Empire leaves his people with a warning as enduring as the history that follows:
Soft lands breed soft men.
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