Història

Una joya unica, Herodotus que era niño cuando estos eventos pasaron nos cuenta como fue la guerra de Grecia contra Persia.
Lamentablemente no tenemos otras fuentes y en mucho de lo que nos cuenta posiblemente no es cierto. En todo caso es una lectura unica para entender la epoca.

Pero tambien el libro incluye ciertas descripciones que lo hacen bastente tedioso, los rios por los que el ejercito persiano, etc.

Estoy seguro de que hay otras ediciones que recortan estas cosas y aunque por un lado es un sacrilegio, creo que facilmente se le pueden quitar 100 paginas que no añaden nada a un lector moderno que no sea un historiador. ( )

Los Clásicos.Traducción y estudio preliminar por María Rosa Lidia de Malkiel.
1o. Clío. 2o. Euterpe. 3o. Talía. 4o. Melpómene. 5o. Terpsícore. 6o. Polimnia. 8o. Urania. 9o. Calíope. ( )

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Herodotus' Histories are most often remembered as an account of the Persian monarchs Darius' and Xerxes' doomed invasions of Greece and the heroic defenses led by the Athenians and the Spartans (The death of the 300 spartiates at Thermopylea and the battle of Marathon). This is there, and it is important, but there is so much more. Herodotus gives descriptions of the numerous peoples that were known to the Greeks, and he tells stories that, although often dubious, convey ideas of the peoples' character in the most striking possible way. Herodotus himself tells us that it is his business not to try to decide for himself what has happened, which is often impossible, but to record what people say has happened, which has its own significance. Many of these stories are haunting. I still get chills when I think about the tyrant Croesus, who has just been taught the error of his philosophy by the conquering tyrant Cyrus, crying out to God and to the Athenian wise man Solon, as Croesus is about to be burned by Cyrus.

Herodotus is also one of the most useful sources on the history of Egypt, which, along with Egypt's conquest by Persia, takes up a sizable portion of the text. He describes Egyptian culture at length. Herodotus may even have had an accurate report about where to find the source of the Nile, which would long elude European explorers thousands of years down the road. ( )