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332 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521012416
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11 July 2002
Description
This book examines the Histories of Herodotus within the context of the intellectual climate of the mid to late fifth century BC. Herodotus is read widely for his accounts of archaic Greek history but his descriptions of Egypt, Scythia and Libya a...
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332 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780521012416
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11 July 2002
Description
This book examines the Histories of Herodotus within the context of the intellectual climate of the mid to late fifth century BC. Herodotus is read widely for his accounts of archaic Greek history but his descriptions of Egypt, Scythia and Libya a...