Written on a scale of Homeric proportions, Herodotus' The Histories is the first and greatest work of prose that Greek Antiquity has bequeathed to us. In it, the traveler from Halicarnassus explores an entire era and a universe with an inquiring and deeply humanistic spirit that will forever change the way History is conceived and narrated. Although its main purpose is to tell the colossal confrontation between the Greeks and the Persians, which resulted...