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The History of Herodotus — Volume 1

by Herodotus (484–430 BCE)

11 chapters, about 152,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. PREFACE 500 words
3. NOTES TO PREFACE 200 words
4. BOOK I. THE FIRST BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED CLIO 41,700 words
5. NOTES TO BOOK I 3,900 words
6. BOOK II. THE SECOND BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED EUTERPE 34,900 words
7. NOTES TO BOOK II 3,300 words
8. BOOK III. THE THIRD BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED THALEIA 31,200 words
9. NOTES TO BOOK III 2,300 words
10. BOOK IV. THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE HISTORIES, CALLED MELPOMENE 31,200 words
11. NOTES TO BOOK IV. 2,600 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Aphrodite
• Croesus
• Deme
• Heracles
• Hippocrates
• I
• Ionians
• Li (Confucianism)
• Li (neo-Confucianism)
• Medes
• Oligarchy
• Syrians

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