![]() In many ways the anecdotes on culture and customs are the substance of the book, but the final battles against the Persian under Xerxes still feature in our culture today - Thermopylae, immortalised by the stand of the Spartan 300. You can start and continue discussion in the forum, here, and we will meet via Google Hangout on Tuesday, March 22, at 11 a.m. The Histories is somehow a cross between a travel guide and a true history of the Persian invasions of Greece. ![]() This version at MIT is translated by George Rawlinson:Īnd on Project Gutenberg is the translation by G.C. The same translation is also available to download in PDF format here and is available in audio on Librivox. There are a number of free online translations available: Our next Book Club will feature selections from Herodotus Histories: Book 1 up to chapter 92, and the whole of Book 2. This is the display of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that things done by man not be forgotten in time, and that great and marvelous deeds, some displayed by the Hellenes, some by the barbarians, not lose their glory, including among others what was the cause of their waging war on each other. ![]()
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