![]() ![]() But its greatest attraction lies in the author’s fascination with the exotic and his irrepressible urge to digress. His epic account of the Persian Wars is packed with iconic moments: the emperor Xerxes having the sea whipped for insubordination his army drinking rivers dry as it advances towards Greece three hundred Spartans fighting to the death at the pass of Thermopylae. The Histories takes its title from the Greek word Herodotus used to describe his own work, historiai – literally ‘investigations’ or ‘enquiry’. Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus … ![]()
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