Yes, first person reporting centuries before Christ. 5th century BC

Herodotus of Halicarnassus. Interviews, dates and a clear difference from what the considered fact (or likely) from stories.

Difficult listening. I'll never buy a book narrated by Bernard Mayes
again. In part 3 it seems there good microphone stopped working so they replaced it with one from a speak n spell. Very course, gave me a headache trying to listen. No amount of radio tuning could correct it. That's right I'm not happy about it.

No

A good purchase for any history buff. Stop watching television and do your own research.

Yes, if complete.

Book VIII is missing the first 22 paragraphs(!), quite a chunk of text. Secondly, the translation replaces the names of the Greek gods with the Roman names, which is odd.This is a flawed recording.

No.

very enjoyable to listen to.

The histories of Herodotus were meant to be read aloud in the theater, so they are more properly called narratives. They contain case after case of tyrants going to war for no good reason. At one point a Spartan general has captured Persian servants prepare a meal as they normally would for the Persian officers and then had his men prepare a Spartan meal. He laughed out loud at the result, called his men in and said "What fools these Persians are to leave their luxury and come to do battle with us to take our penury." Apparently it was ever thus; tyrants, not content with what they control try to control more and reap destruction. It's enlightening in it's tragic repetition of this theme.

I enjoy this audio book. The quality of the story as accurate history is debatable, but it is terribly interesting as much for the perspective of Herodotus as anything else. The quality of the sounds varies at times, but it is generally pretty good.

Herodotus is a classic, but this reading is only average. Try to find a better version if you can.

the narrator sounds like the old man character off "Family Guy" he even whistles when he says "s's ... not sure how i'm going to get through 20 hours of this : ( ugh.

i was so looking forward to this, but i can barely understand what this guy is saying.

does AUdible give money back?