“The Histories” by Herodotus, translated by Tom Holland, introduction and notes by Paul Cartledge (Penguin Classics Deluxe, 880 pages, $23, paperback) It’s not often that an ancient Greek ...

Herodotus: The Histories. Translated by Tom Holland. Penguin Classics; 834 pages; £25. Buy from Amazon.co.uk OVER the course of the past decade Tom Holland, a British popular historian, has ...

As the great classicist Tom Holland has said, Herodotus is the precursor to Wikipedia. Just as it may contain errors, so did his work. But the goal was the same: to gather information from diverse ...

As Paul Cartledge writes in his introduction to Tom Holland’s new translation of Herodotus, the resemblance Thucydides’ merciless analysis of civil war on Corfu bears to Orwell’s reading of ...

• Read Herodotus' "The Histories," translated by ancient history expert Tom Holland. • Watch this Ted-Ed video explaining why Herodotus is called the "father of history," presented by Mark ...

As Tom Holland, a Herodotus translator, told The Telegraph: “The Histories are a great shaggy-dog story.” Here are some colorful passages (some of which may stretch the truth). 1.