About the book:
Stories from Herodotus, retold for children.
Contents:
- Croesus, King of Lydia
- Cyrus the Persian
- The Treasury of Rhampsinitus
- Cambyses the Madman
- Polycrates, Tyrant of Samos
- How Darius Became King
- Of the Greek Physician who Healed Darius
- The Devotion of Zopyrus
- How Darius Made War on Scythia
- Cypselus of Corinth and Periander his Son
- Tales of Sparta
- Tales of Athens
- The Revolt of Ionia
- Marathon
- The Invasion of Xerxes
About Herodotus (from Wiki):
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.
