سیسرو نے ہیروڈوٹس کو 'بابائے تاریخ قرار دیا۔ وہ واقعی اپنے سے بعد کے مؤرخین کا جدامد تھا۔ اگرچہ اس کا طریقہ کار موجودہ محققین کی توقعات کے مطابق نہیں مگر ماضی کے ایک قابل بھروسہ بیان کے لیے اس کی کھوج (جو دیوتاؤں...

Translated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining.Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards...

Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. 484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but,...

The first example of non-fiction, the text that underlies the entire discipline of history ... it is above all a treasure trove' Tom HollandOne of the masterpieces of classical literature,and The Historiesand describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united...

'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.'The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodotus of Halicarnassus.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday....