Herodotus (Hermes Books Series)
[Romm] explores succinctly Herodotus' double roles as an historian and a  spinner of yarns (it's sometimes hard to tell when one begins and the other leaves off),  and he makes it clear that the ancient world was populated by folks who could be as  duplicitous or heroic as any alive today.  --Herbert Kupferberg, Parade--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.