The Persian Wars, Volume II: Books 3-4 [Greek, Ancient (To 1453)]

by Herodotus

The "Father of History."

Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians. He traveled widely in most of Asia Minor, Egypt (as far as Aswan), North Africa, Syria, the country north of the Black Sea, and many parts of the Aegean Sea and the mainland of Greece. He lived, it seems, for some time in Athens, and in 443 went with other colonists to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Greek, Ancient (To 1453)
• ISBN: 0674991311
• ISBN13: 9780674991316
• Release Date: January 1921
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.6" x 6.7"