On the War for Greek Freedom
Subtitle: Selections from the Histories
Contributors: Samuel Shirley (Translator); James S. Romm (Editor)
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company; Hackett Pub. Co.
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780872206670
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; Greece; History - General History; Ancient Greece; Iran; Ancient - Greece; History; Persian Wars, 500-449 B.C; To 640
First sentence: Herodotus of Halicarnassus here gives the results of his researches, so that the events of human history may not fade with time and the notable achievements both of Greeks and of foreigners may not lack their due fame; and, among other things, to show why these peoples came to make war on one another.