Herodotus (Hermes Books Series)
Editorial Reviews
Herbert Kupferberg, Parade
[Romm] explores succinctly Herodotus' double roles as an historian and a spinner of yarns (it's sometimes hard to tell when one begins and the other leaves off), and he makes it clear that the ancient world was populated by folks who could be as duplicitous or heroic as any alive today.
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Book Description
Herodotus, widely known as the father of history, was not only a historian but also a master story-teller, argues the author of this insightful book. James Romm gives general readers a fresh appreciation of the Histories and shows that Herodotus was more than a source of historical data-he was a masterful and artistic author who created a radically new literary genre.
Herodotus (Hermes Books Series),James S. Romm,Yale University Press,0300072309,Ancient - Greece,Biography,Greece,Herodotus,Historians,Historiography,History,History - General History,History, Ancient,History: World,Ancient (Classical) Greek,Ancient Greece,European history: BCE to c 500 CE,History / Ancient / Greece,History: theory & methods,Literary studies: classical, early & medieval,Psychology & Psychiatry / General
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