A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV by David Asheri, Alan Ll... - 9780198149569

A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IVAuthor(s): David Asheri, Alan Lloyd, Aldo Corcella, Oswyn Murray, Alfonso Moreno\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198149569, 978-0198149569\nSynopsis\nHerodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it - its peoples and their achievements, together with the causes and course of the great wars that brought the Greek cities into conflict with the empires of the Near East. Each subsequent generation of historians has sought to use his text and to measure their knowledge of these cultures against his words.\n\nThis commentary by leading scholars, originally published in Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and has now been edited for English-speaking readers by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno. It is designed for use alongside the Oxford Classical Text of Herod.