HERODOTUS
Hêrodotos (Ηροδοτος).
Born about 484 BCE in Halicarnassus.
Died about 425 BCE in Thurii.
Wikipedia: English,
French.
WORKS
Histories (circa 430 BCE).
(Ιστοριαι | Historiai).
Greek: Aldus (editio princeps, 1502);
• Abicht, I–IV and
V–IX (1869);
• Stein, I–IV and
V–IX (1869–1871; see also
1884, I–IV and
V–IX);
• Holder, I–IV and
V–IX (1886–1888);
• Hude, I–IV and
V–IX (1908).
English: The Famous History (anonymous, 1584; books I–II only);
• The History, I–IV and
V–IX (Isaac Littlebury, 1709, ed. 1720);
• The History, I–II,
III–V,
VI–VIII and
IX (William Beloe, 1791);
• History, I–IV and
V‐IX (anonymous, 1824);
• The Nine Books of the History, I–IV and
V–IX (Peter Edmund Laurent, 1827; see also
1837, I–IV and
V–IX);
• Herodotus (Isaac Taylor, 1829);
• Herodotus (Henry Cary, 1848);
• The History, I,
II‐III,
IV‐VI and
VII‐IX (George Rawlinson, 1858–1860);
• The History, I–IV and
V‐IX (George Macaulay, 1890);
• Histories (George Harris, 1906–1907);
• Loeb edition: The Histories, I–II (Alfred Godley, 1920),
III–IV (1921, ed. 1928),
V–VII (1922, ed. 1938) and
VIII–IX (1925, ed. 1969);
• The Histories (Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1954, ed. 1955; revised by John Marincola in
1996);
• The History (David Grene, 1987);
• The Histories (Walter Blanco, 1992, ed. 2013);
• The Histories (Robin Waterfield, 1998);
• The Histories (Andrea Purvis, 2007);
• The Histories (Tom Holland, 2013).
French: Les Neuf Livres des Histoires (Pierre Saliat, 1556; revised by Eugène Talbot in
1864);
• Les Histoires (Pierre Du Ryer, 1645);
• Histoire, I,
II,
III–IV,
V–VI,
VII–VIII,
IX and
Tables (Pierre-Henri Larcher, 1786; expanded edition:
1802, I,
II,
III–IV,
V–VI,
VII–VIII,
IX,
Chronological Table,
Geographical Table and
Table of Contents; see also
1850, I–V and
VI–IX; revised by Émile Pessonneaux in
1870);
• Histoire, I–III,
IV–VII and
VIII–IX (André-François Miot, 1822);
• Histoire, I–III,
IV–VI and
VII–IX (Élie-Ami Bétant, 1836–1837);
• Histoires (Pierre Giguet, 1864);
• L’Enquête (Henri Berguin, 1932);
• Budé edition: Histoires, I (Philippe-Ernest Legrand, 1932, ed. 1964),
II (1936, ed. 1963),
III (1939, ed. 1958),
IV (1945, ed. 1960),
V (1946, ed. 1961),
VI (1948, ed. 1963),
VII (1951, ed. 1963),
VIII (1953, ed. 1964),
IX (1954),
Index (1954) and Introduction (1932);
• L’Enquête (Andrée Barguet, 1964);
• Histoires (Edmond Richer, 1979).
• Book I (Croesus, Cyrus).
Greek: Stein.
English: Godley.
French: Miot.
• Book II (Cambyses, Egypt).
Greek: Stein.
English: Godley.
French: Miot.
• Book III (Smerdis, Darius, the Persian Empire).
Greek: Stein.
English: Godley.
French: Miot.
• Book IV (Scythia, Thrace, Libya).
Greek: Stein.
English: Godley.
French: Miot.
• Book V (Greece, Ionian Revolt).
Greek: Stein.
English: Godley.
French: Miot.
• Book VI (Ionian Revolt suppressed, Marathon).
Greek: Stein.
English: Godley.
French: Miot.
• Book VII (Xerxes, Thermopylae, Artemision).
Greek: Stein.
English: Godley.
French: Miot.
• Book VIII (Salamis).
Greek: Stein.
English: Godley.
French: Miot.
• Book IX (Platea, Mycale).
Greek: Stein.
English: Godley.
French: Miot.
About Homer’s Birth and Life.
(Περι της του Ομηρου γενεσιος και βιοτης | Peri tês tou Homêrou genesios kai biotês).
Doubtful attribution.
Greek: Chalcocondyles (editio princeps, 1488);
• Aldus (1504);
• Westermann (1845).
English: The Life of Homer (Kenneth Mackenzie, 1851).
French: Vie d’Homère (Pierre-Henri Larcher, 1802);
• Dissertation sur la naissance et la vie d’Homère (André-François Miot, 1822).
Created on 17 May 2021. Updated on 24 November 2022.
