Tales from Herodotus
著者
書誌事項
Tales from Herodotus
（Penguin books）
Penguin Books, 1997
- タイトル別名
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Tales from Herodotus : as featured in the English patient
注記
"This translation first published in 1954", according to colophon.
In page i, the following note appears : "The complete edition of The Histories by Herodotus is published in Penguin Classics."
収録内容
- The wife of Candaules
- Arion and the dolphin
- Lydian Games
- Ancient Customs
- Queen Nitocris
- A sacrifice to Aphrodite
- The most ancient race
- Cats, crocodiles and hippos
- The phoenix
- The flying snakes of Arabia
- Mummies
- The rage of pheros
- Sethos and Sennacherib
- The Egyptian labyrinth
- The nature of skulls
- Cambyses and the fish-eaters
- The ring of Polycrates
- The gold-digging ants
- Spices and sheep
- Darius and Domocedes
- The soothsayers of Scythia
- The crime of Anacharsis
- The destroying wind
- Hunting the Troglodytes
- The pillar of the sky
- The Libyans
- The dog-headed men
- A Thracian custom
- Hippocleides
- The tears of Xerxes
- The battle of Thermopylae
- The battle of Salamis
- A robe of many colors
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A selection from the Penguin Classics "Herodotus' Histories". The sections reproduced in this collection are mentioned in the Oscar-winning film "An English Patient".
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