A Greek historian, Herodotus (c.485-425 BC) left his native town of Halicarnassus, a Greek colony, to travel extensively. He collected historical, geographical, ethnological, mytholgical and archaeological material for his histories. Aubrey de Selincourt has translated Livy, Herodotus and Arrian, all for Penguin Classics. John Marincola is Associate Professor of Classics at New York University.
De Selincourt'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 De Selincourt 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