La batalla de las termopilas

by Herodotus, Heródoto, Diodoro de Sicilia

In this combat, after fighting bravely, Leonidas fell, and with him many other illustrious Spartans whose names I have managed to find out ... Book of the Teselas collection consisting of extracts from classic texts narrating a specific event, as in this case The Battle of Thermopylae.
 

176 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Herodotus (Greek: Ηρόδοτος) (c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He is known for having written the Histories – a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars. Herodotus was the first writer to perform systematic investigation of historical events. He has been described as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.
The Histories primarily cover the lives of prominent kings and famous battles such as Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale. His work deviates from the main topics to provide a cultural, ethnographical, geographical, and historiographical background that forms an essential part of the narrative and provides readers with a wellspring of additional information.
Herodotus has been criticized for his inclusion of "legends and fanciful accounts" in his work. The contemporaneous historian Thucydides accused him of making up stories for entertainment. However, Herodotus explained that he reported what he could see and was told. A sizable portion of the Histories has since been confirmed by modern historians and archaeologists.

Reviews

[Manuel Bv · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pequeño libro que se lee en media hora sobre Leónidas y sus 300 espartanos.

[Irina Villacis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reto Liluleo 2019

leer un clásico griego.

no tenia muy bien claro que libro leer en esta categoria. ya habia leido la odisea y la iliada. entonces decidi leer este. no me causó ni disgusto ni gusto.