Histories (Oxford University Press)

"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved żeby readers well-versed in the classics.

Compelled aby his desire to "prevent the traces of human events from being erased aby time," Herotodus recounts the incidents preceding and following the Persian Wars. He gives us much more than military history, though, providing the fullest portrait of the classical world of the 5th and 6th centuries.Translated aby Robin Waterfield, a distinguished translator whose version of Plato