The text is that of the new and spirited translation by Walter Blanco.Jennifer Tolbert Roberts's introduction and annotations provide vitalbackground information.
Herodotus’s history is the earliest continuous prose narrative in Western literature. His long narrative—longer than either of the Homeric epics—continues to hold us spellbound because of the author’s
This Norton Critical Edition offers an introduction to Herodotus for students approaching the history of Western Civilization or classical Greece for the first time. It features a new translation and
