The Portable Greek Historians
Subtitle: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius (Viking Portable Library (Paper))
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: September 29, 1977
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780140150650
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History - General History; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; History / Ancient / Greece; Historiography; Greece
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.