The way of Herodotus
Subtitle: travels with the man who invented history
By: Justin Marozzi.
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: [Cambridge, MA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780306816215
Subjects: Herodotus; Herodotus; Marozzi, Justin, -- 1970- -- Travel -- Mediterranean Region; Marozzi, Justin, -- 1970- -- Travel -- Iraq; History, Ancient -- Historiography; Mediterranean Region -- Description and travel; Iraq -- Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Dog-headed men, gold-digging ants and flying snakes, or, Why we should all read Herodotus; title: Turkey. Priestesses with beards ; Underwater Herodotus; title: Iraq. Fools and wars ; Baghdad, evangelicals and mocking madmen ; Babylon; title: Egypt. Memphis and Thebes : tall stories and self-immolating cats, or, No sex in temples, please, we're Egyptian ; Herodotus in Hollywood (and the Sahara) ; Cairo, mother of the world; title: Greece. Athens, city hall of wisdom ; Herodotus meets Aristotle ; Thessaloniki : history on the front line ; An exorcism ; Lunch (and a good deal of Retsina) with Patrick Leigh Fermor ; 'Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!' ; Wassailing gods, pious priests and tearful monks.