Few facts are known about the life of Herodotus. He was born around 490 BC in Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor. Tom Holland is the acclaimed author of The Forge of Christendom, Rubicon, and Persian Fire and has adapted Herodotus, Homer, Thucydides, and Virgil for BBC Radio. Paul Cartledge is A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge.
Praise for The Histories:
"Unquestionably the best English translation of Herodotus to have
appeared in the past half-century...I am in awe of Tom Holland's
achievement, and have no doubt it will bear rich fruit in bringing
Herodotus to public attention"
- Edith Hall, Times Literary Supplement
"Lively, engaging version of the Histories...[an]
admirable translation"
-The Economist Praise for In the Shadow of the
Sword
"Written with flamboyant elegance and energetic intensity, Holland
delivers a brilliant tour de force of revisionist scholarship and
thrilling storytelling with a bloodspattered cast of swashbuckling
tyrants, nymphomaniacal empresses and visionary prophets. The book
is unputdownable."
--The Times of London Praise for Rubicon
"Tom Holland has produced in one volume the crispest and most
compelling account of this momentous period I have ever read."
--The Seattle Times Praise for Persian Fire
"Excellent... Holland is a cool-headed historian who writes no less
authoritatively and engagingly on classical Greece than he did on
ancient Rome in his last book, Rubicon"
--Mary Beard, The Sunday Times
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