Histories (Hackett Classics)

✍ Scribed by Herodotus, James Romm

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 570
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume includes a wealth of helpful footnotes; more than a dozen maps and illustrations; a chronology of the Archaic Age; a glossary of main characters, places, and terms; suggested further reading; and an index of proper nouns.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Maps
1. The Persian Empire and the Ancient World
2. The Greek World and the Route of Xerxes’ Invasion
3. The Regions of the Ancient World Described by Herodotus
4. Ancient Egypt
5. Scythia as described by Herodotus
6. The world known to Herodotus
7. Libya as described by Herodotus
8. The Persian Royal Road
9. The Battle of Marathon as described by Herodotus
10. Greek cities of Sicily in the 5th century B.C.
11. The battles of Thermopylae and Artemisium
12. The battle of Salamis
13. The battle of Plataea as described by Herodotus
Introduction
Chronology of the Archaic Age
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
Book 6
Book 7
Book 8
Book 9
Main Characters, Places, and Terms
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index of Proper Nouns
Back Cover