Translated by David Grene (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Scarce. This soft cover book is 699 pages in length. Our copy is unread and perfectly clean, in almost brand new condition. The spine is slightly sunned. Photographs are available upon request. "David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history. Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past. In his History, the war between the Greeks and Persians, the origins of their enmity, and all the more general features of the civilizations of the world of his day are seen as a unity and expressed as the vision of one man who as a child lived through the last of the great acts in this universal drama. In Grene's remarkable translation and commentary, we see the historian as a storyteller, combining through his own narration the skeletal "historical" facts and the imaginative reality toward which his story reaches. Herodotus emerges in all his charm and complexity as a writer and the first historian in the Western tradition, perhaps unique in the way he has seen the interrelation of fact and fantasy".…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Softcover Wraps. Softcover Edition. Soft cover book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Like New. 2nd Printing: January 1973. 125 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Copyright 1968. 180 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Front cover slightly bent.

Decorative Canvas Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 220 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external use. Crisp pages. Occasional pen markings on text.

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