Herodotus - The Histories (3 translations) torrent

HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 BC) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern day Bodrum, Turkey). Described as "the father of history" by Cicero, Herodotus was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent, and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative.

THE HISTORIES is his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced. It is a record of his "inquiry" into the origins of the Greco-Persian wars, compelled by his desire to "prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time." Much more than military history, the book provides the fullest portrait of the classical world of the 5th and 6th centuries.


The following three translations are in ePUB format:

* THE HISTORIES (Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004). Translated by G. C. Macauley and revised throughout by Donald Lateiner; Introduction and Notes by Donald Lateiner.

* THE HISTORIES (Oxford World's Classics, 1998). Translated by Robin Waterfield, with an Introduction and Notes by Carolyn Dewald.

* THE LANDMARK HERODOTUS: The Histories (Pantheon, 2007). Translated by Andrea L. Purvis with Maps, Annotations, Appendices, and Encyclopedic Index; edited by Robert B. Strassler.