The Persian Wars - Herodotus, George Rawlinson (translation)
Herodotus, George Rawlinson (translation)
Category: History
Narrator: Charlton Griffin
Tags: History, Classic, Adults
Unquestionably, Herodotus has left mankind one of the worlds greatest works of literature. The Persian Wars is part history, part geography, part anthropologyand completely entertaining. It possesses a charm that is legendary. But, over and above this, Herodotus has succeeded for all time in brilliantly expressing the conflict between the ideal of the free man defending his liberty within a state based on the rule of law, and that of the despot who bases his rule on brute force and whose subjects are considered slaves. In his writing we experience the impact of that great intellectual, moral, and ethical force that set the Greeks apart from the rest of the Ancient World. The Persian Wars is a magnificent epic of human triumph over the forces of tyranny, of the struggle over two diametrically opposed concepts of governmentbetween which man must still choose today.
