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The Histories (Oxford World's Classics) (Updated Edition) by Carolyn Dewald (Editor), Robin Waterfield (Translator), Waterfield Herodotus Paperback, 796 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-19-282425-2 / 0192824252 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-282425-7 / 9780192824257 Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the informat |