The History

The rousing story of the Greeks and Persians, their war and their world, by the man Cicero called "the father of history"

In this edition of Herodotus's monumental account of the ancient world, David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of the book and the writer that founded the entire field of history writing.

Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true c...