num_pages: 501
description: Essential passages from the works of four "fathers of history"-Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.
language: English
title: The Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius
titlecomplete: The Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius
genres: Greece, Politics, Philosophy, Classical Studies, Ancient History, School, Reference, Classics, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 176
publisher: The Viking Press