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100	0		_92559 _aHerodotus
245	1	0	_aHistories / _cHerodotus ; Translated with notes by George Rawlinson ; with an introduction by Tom Griffith.
260			_aLondon : _bWordsworth Editions, _c1996.
300			_axxxii, 734 p. ; _c20 cm.
490	1		_aWordsworth classics of world literature
505	0		_aBook 1: Clio -- Book 2: Euterpe -- Book 3: Thalia -- Book 4. Melpomene -- Book 5: Terpsichore -- Book 6: Erato -- Book 7: Polyhymnia -- Book 8: Urania -- Book 9: Calliope.
520			_aHerodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining. Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and 385 yards (or 42.195 kilometres) from Marathon to Athens? And what did he do when he got there? Was the Battle of Salamis fought between sausage-sellers? Which is the oldest language in the world? Why did Leonidas and his 300 Spartans spend the morning before the battle of Thermopylae combing their hair? Why did every Babylonian woman have to sit in the Temple of Aphrodite until a man threw a coin into her lap, and how long was she likely to sit there? And what is the best way to kill a crocodile? This wide-ranging history provides the answers to all these fascinating questions as well as providing many fascinating insights into the Ancient World.
650		0	_92561 _aHistory, Ancient
651		0	_92562 _aGreece _xHistory _yTo 146 B.C.
700	1		_4trl _92563 _aRawlinson, George, _d1812-1902
700	1		_4aui _92564 _aGriffith, Tom
830		0	_92560 _aWordsworth classics of world literature
942			_2ddc _cBK