Modern scholarship judges Herodotus to be a more complex writer than his past readers supposed. His Histories is now being read in ways that are seemingly incom

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From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiop

"An annotated Herodotus reader containing passages from books I-IX of the Histories. For intermediate courses in Greek language at the college level or Greek la