The History of Herodotus Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay The Histories; also known as The History of Herodotus is now considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written in 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Greece at that time. Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of the West's most important ...
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The History of Herodotus Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay The Histories; also known as The History of Herodotus is now considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written in 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Greece at that time. Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs. Contents The First Book of the Histories, called Clio The Second Book of the Histories, called Euterpe The Third Book of the Histories, called Thaleia The Fourth Book of the Histories, called Melpomene The Fifth Book of the Histories, called Terpsichore The Sixth Book of the Histories, called Erato The Seventh Book of the Histories, called Polymnia The Eighth Book of the Histories, called Urania The Ninth Book of the Histories, called Calliope If a new translation of Herodotus does not justify itself, it will hardly be justified in a preface; therefore the question whether it was needed may be left here without discussion. The aim of the translator has been above all things faithfulness -- faithfulness to the manner of expression and to the structure of sentences, as well as to the meaning of the Author. At the same time it is conceived that the freedom and variety of Herodotus is not always best reproduced by such severe consistency of rendering as is perhaps desirable in the case of the Epic writers before and the philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language; and that not only because the affectation of an archaic style would necessarily be offensive to the reader, but also because in language Herodotus is not archaic. His style is the "best canon of the Ionic speech," marked, however, not so much by primitive purity as by eclectic variety. At the same time it is characterised largely by the poetic diction of the Epic and Tragic writers; and while the translator is free to employ all the resources of modern English, so far as he has them at his command, he must carefully retain this poetical colouring and by all means avoid the courtier phrase by which the style of Herodotus has too often been made "more noble." As regards the text from which this translation has been made, it is based upon that of Stein's critical edition (Berlin, 1869-1871), that is to say the estimate there made of the comparative value of the authorities has been on the whole accepted as a just one, rather than that which depreciates the value of the Medicean MS. and of the class to which it belongs. On the other hand the conjectural emendations proposed by Stein have very seldom been adopted, and his text has been departed from in a large number of other instances also, which will for the most part be found recorded in the notes.
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Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 800grams, ISBN:
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Fair. in No jacket. Book is clean and sound, but the black cloth cover shows wear (mainly at edges) and has a faded spine with several tiny paint specks on it, and some fraying along spine edges; NO dust jacket; interior very good, however, with crisp text pages that have penned markings on perhaps 2 or 3 pages; published by Tudor Publishing Company, 1956 Reprint, edited by Manuel Komroff; a thick, heavy hardcover of 544 pgs. including Index; includes Books One thru Nine, titled as follows: Clio ~ Euterpé ~ Thalia ~ Melpomene ~ Terpsichore ~ Erato ~ Polymnia ~ Urania ~ Calliopé (see picture of my book within this description)
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Very Good in Acceptable jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (USA) No markings, solid Very Good in Fair dust jacket with front panel clean and fresh but with a large piece missing from the base of the spaine panel and the lower rear panel. Blue cloth, ix, 144pp. No illus. This translation by Rawlinson dates from 1858; this book is edited by Manuel Kromoff. (2.9 JM HOQ 103/b4.
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