Herodotus: A New and Literal Version – Henry Cary (1874)

S$69.00

Herodotus: A New and Literal Version – Henry Cary (1874)

S$69.00

Title: Herodotus: A New and Literal Version from the Text of Baehr

Author: Herodotus, Henry Cary (trans.)

Publisher: Harper & Brothers, 1874.

Condition: Hardcover, very good. Spine edges chipped. Binding tight, pages tanned but very clean. Small bookseller’s sticker to back endpaper. A small foldout map of the ancient world. 613pp including index.

About Herodotus (from Wikipedia):

The father of history as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well versed in the classics.

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, and lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC). He has been called the “Father of History” since he was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories — his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced — is a record of his “inquiry” (or ἱστορία historía, a word that passed into Latin and took on its modern meaning of history), being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information.