The Histories (Paperback)

The Histories By Herodotus, Aubrey de Sélincourt (Translated by), John M. Marincola (Revised by), John M. Marincola (Introduction by), John M. Marincola (Notes by), Betty Radice (Consultant editor) Cover Image
By Herodotus, Aubrey de Sélincourt (Translated by), John M. Marincola (Revised by), John M. Marincola (Introduction by), John M. Marincola (Notes by), Betty Radice (Consultant editor)
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Translated by Aubrey de Sélincourt with an introduction and Notes by John M. Marincola.

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About the Author


Few facts are known about the life of Herodotus. He was born around 490 BC in Halicarnassus, on the south-west coast of Asia Minor. He seems to have travelled widely throughout the Mediterranean world, including Egypt, Africa, the area around the Black Sea and throughout many Greek city-states, of both the mainland and the islands. A sojourn in Athens is part of the traditional biography, and there he is said to have given public readings of his work and been friends with the playwright Sophocles. He is said also to have taken part in the founding of the colony of Thurii in Italy in 443 BC. He probably died at some time between 415 and 410 BC. His reputation has varied greatly, but for the ancients and many moderns he well deserves the title (first given to him by Cicero) of ‘the Father of History’.

John Marincola was born in Philadelphia in 1954, and was educated at Swarthmore College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Brown University. He has taught at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, and at Union College in New York, and is currently an Associate Professor of Classics at New York University. From 1997 to 1999 he was Executive Director of the American Philological Association, and in 1999-2000 he was a Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC. He is the author of Authority and Tradition in Ancient Historiography (Cambridge, 1997), Greek Historians (Greece and Rome New Surveys in the Classics 31, Oxford 2001), and of several articles on the Greek and Roman historians. He is currently at work on a book on Hellenistic historiography.

Praise For…


“De Sélincourt’s pacy, natural-sounding, rendering, as superbly revised and annotated by John Marincola…was a game-changer…still reads freshly and is a bestseller six decades after its first publication.”
--Edith Hall,  Times Literary Supplement
Product Details
ISBN: 9780140449082
ISBN-10: 0140449086
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Publication Date: April 29th, 2003
Pages: 784
Language: English
Series: Penguin Classics