Ancient Empires of the East

Informationen zum Autor Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer who was born in the city of Halicarnassus, which was part of the Persian Empire and is now Bodrum, Turkey. He later moved to Thurii, which is now in the Italian region of Calabria (Italy). The Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, was written by him. Herodotus has been criticized because his work has "legends and made-up stories." Thucydides, a historian who lived at the same time, said that he made up stories for fun. But Herodotus said that he only wrote about what he could see and hear. Herodotus would have told people about his research by reading it out loud in front of a crowd. In the introduction to the Penguin edition of the Histories, John Marincola says that there are parts of Herodotus's early books that could be called "performance pieces." Thucydides and Herodotus became friends over time, and they became close enough that they were both buried in Thucydides' tomb in Athens. Klappentext Ancient Empires is an 1883 edition of Books 1 3 of Herodotus' Histories! which focus on Persia and Egypt. Zusammenfassung Archibald Henry Sayce (1845–1933) was a pioneering orientalist and philologist and the first Professor of Assyriology at Oxford University. The Ancient Empires of the East (1883) is his edition, with 'Notes, Introductions and Appendices' of the first three books of The Histories of the fifth-century Greek historian Herodotus. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Introduction; Book I. The empires of the East; Book II. The land of Egypt; Book III. The Persian empire; Appendices; Dynastic tables; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Herodotus, Archibald Hen Sayce, Archibald Henry Sayce
• Assisted by: Archibald Henry Sayce (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9781108010962
• ISBN: 978-1-108-01096-2
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, HISTORY / Middle East / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, African History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Persian Empire, African history: pre-colonial period