The Portable Greek Historians
Subtitle: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius (Viking Portable Library (Paper))
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: September 29, 1977
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780140150650
First sentence: HALICARNASSUS in Asia Minor, where Herodotus was born and reared, was a Greek settlement ruled by a Carian dynasty under the higher suzerainty of the Persian king.