The Histories (Annotated)

Herodotus's The Histories is the foundational prose epic of historical inquiry, recounting the causes, course, and consequences of the Greco-Persian Wars while ranging widely across Egypt, Lydia, Scythia, Persia, and the Greek world. Its style is digressive, anecdotal, and ethnographic, blending political narrative, travel writing, oral tradition, and moral reflection. Composed in the fifth centur...