Essential passages from the works of four fathers of history —Herodotus's
History, Thucydides'
History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's
Anabasis, and Polybius's
Histories.Introduction
A Brief Reading List
Map
HERODOTUS
FromBook I
Lydia
FromBook II
The Antiquity of Egypt
The Nile Flood
Manners and Customs
Origins of the Greek Gods
The Truth about the Trojan War
The Building of the Pyramids
FromBook VII
The Persian War after Marathon
FromBook VIII
The Persian War after Marathon(Continued)
THUCYDIDES
FromBook I
The Beginnings
FromBook II
The Funeral Oration of Pericles
The Plague in Athens
FromBook III
The Mitylenian Debate
Sedition in Corcyra
FromBook VI
The War in Sicily
FromBook VII
The Sicilian Disaster
XENOPHON:The Anabasis
FromBook I
FromBook II
FromBook III
FromBook IV
POLYBIUS
FromBook I
Introduction
FromBook II
Aratus of Sicyon and the Achaean League
FromBook VI
The Roman Constitution
M. I. Finley was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He died in 1986.US
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