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Halicarnassus, 5th century BC. A young Greek, curious and tireless, decides to do something no one had ever done before: travel across the entire known world, interview priests, kings, soldiers and peasants, and write down everything he discovers in nine books dedicated to the nine Muses. That young man is Herodotus, and posterity will remember him forever as «the Father of History».
In this first book of the saga Herodotus: Histories Reloaded 2.0, Italian writer and novelist David S. Matrecano takes the original text of the Greek Master and updates it for the 21st-century reader, with absolute documentary rigor, a gripping narrative pace and a modern eye that unmasks the legends, updates the dates, corrects the chronological errors and makes Herodotus dialogue with today's reader.
In this book you will live through:
• The abduction of Princess Io of Argos by Phoenician sailors
• The abductions of Princesses Europa of Tyre and Medea of Georgia
• The mystery of the abduction of Helen of Troy — love affair or rape?
• Croesus, the multi-millionaire king of Lydia who invented the gold coin
• The perverted King Candaules, stabbed to death by his bodyguard Gyges
• The incredible miracle of Arion the musician and the dolphin that saved him
• Solon the Wise of Athens and the true meaning of wealth
• The fatal prophecy that killed Atys, son of Croesus
• Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Empire, and the fall of Lydia
• Zoroastrian religion, Persian customs and Babylonian rituals
• The Persian conquest of all the Greek cities of Asia Minor
• The laws, uses and customs of Babylon and Assyria
• The last attempt of Cyrus to subdue the fierce Massagetae of the Caucasus
Absolute historical rigor. Maps, timelines, exact coordinates. A narrative that reads like an adventure and documents like a scholarly work. Based on the original Greek text of Herodotus, translated into 18th-century Spanish by the Jesuit Bartolomé Pou and modernized in the 21st century with the latest archaeological findings.
Get your copy today and start the epic 9-book saga that is reinventing the way we read ancient history.
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