Auteur: Emily Baragwanath

In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and percep …

In his extraordinary story of the defence of Greece against the Persian invasions of 490-480 BC, Herodotus sought to communicate not only what happened, but also the background of thoughts and percep …

Herodotus, the ‘Father of History’, is infamously known for having employed elements more akin to mythological tales than to unvarnished ’truth’ in translating his historical research into narrative …

Xenophon was acknowledged in Antiquity as a philosopher, a historian (third in the triad of great Classical historians, alongside Herodotus and Thucydides), and a literary artist. His narrative was a …