From the editor of the widely praised The Landmark Thucydides, a new Landmark Edition of The Histories by Herodotus, the greatest classical work of history ever written.
Herodotus was a Greek historian living in Ionia during the fifth century BCE. He traveled extensively through the lands of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea and collected stories, and then recounted his experiences with the varied people and cultures he encountered. Cicero called him “the father of history,” and his only work, The Histories, is considered the first true piece of historical writing in Western literature. With lucid prose that harks back to the time of oral tradition, Herodotus set a standard for narrative nonfiction that continues to this day.
In The Histories, Herodotus chronicles the rise of the Persian Empire and its dramatic war with the Greek city-states. Within that story he includes rich veins of anthropology, ethnography, geology, and geography, pioneering these fields of study, and explores such universal themes as the nature of freedom, the role of religion, the human costs of war, and the dangers of absolute power.
Ten years in the making, The Landmark Herodotus gives us a new, dazzling translation by Andrea L. Purvis that makes this remarkable work of literature more accessible than ever before. Illustrated, annotated, and filled with maps, this edition also includes an introduction by Rosalind Thomas and twenty-one appendices written by scholars at the top of their fields, covering such topics as Athenian government, Egypt, Scythia, Persian arms and tactics, the Spartan state, oracles, religion, tyranny, and women.
Like The Landmark Thucydides before it, The Landmark Herodotus is destined to be the most readable and comprehensively useful edition of The Histories available.
根据希罗多德的描述,居鲁士(Cyrus)大帝之后的所有波斯国王都或多或少地违背了他们本族的“诺摩斯”(nomos,意义涵盖风俗、礼仪与律法)。冈比西斯(Cambyses)的癫狂众人皆知,因为他不仅不在乎波斯人的习俗,甚至还蔑视其他民族的习俗。考虑到希罗多德和品达一样,认为“...
評分 評分希罗多德的游历大约是很广的,从书中的描述来看,我觉得他肯定去过埃及,利比亚,波斯,西徐亚,还有很多地方。他的见闻大约已经远远超过了那个时候人一生所能经历的全部。而他也许是我读过的最早的一位极具幽默感的作家了。修昔底德的书一般都是板着脸描述战斗的细节,或者长...
評分 評分《历史》,又名《希腊波斯战争史》,是“公元前五世纪希腊历史学家希罗多德所撰述的记述公元前六至五世纪波斯帝国和希腊诸城邦之间战争的一部历史名著”。 “全书传统分为九卷”,“这种分法大概出自后来编订此书的亚历山大里亚学者之手”。 “第一卷在开宗明义之后,...
西方史學開山之作,以波斯徵服史為主綫,希臘殖民史為副綫,穿插神話傳說、奇聞軼事,勾勒齣一幅公元前五世紀東地中海到中西亞各民族的完整曆史畫捲。希羅多德天南海北恣意遊走的敘事風格看似漫不經意,實則暗具匠心,可讀性極強(除埃及部分),讓我一個非專業讀者愛不釋手。有對風俗習慣的客觀記錄,也有抑殘暴波斯揚自由雅典的春鞦筆法。更要感謝這一版的編者,用詳盡的史圖和注解為普通讀者鋪平瞭通嚮古代世界的道路。
评分Herodotus是一個有點像gossip girl的曆史學傢,比Thucydides討喜一些。
评分為什麼不買版權?
评分要讀英譯就是這版不要猶豫!居然沒標過。最近重新翻閱,發現果然忘記很多。多年以後居然有沒把希臘語學下去的後悔?!
评分等英語水平更進一步是再讀一遍!
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