Aris & Phillips Ltd, 1992, Softcover, Book Condition: Good

Paperback binding with limp laminated covers. A good second-hand copy with previous owner's name and stamps to endpaper. - The Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti-Greek bias, Plutarch tells us much about his own attitude to writing history. So that together with Lucian's How to Write History (see Lucian A Selection in this series) it forms a basic text for the study of Greek historiography. It is also perhaps the most revealing example of Plutarch's prose style with its rhetorical variety and energy and odd mixture of good and bad argument. But in citing lost works, Plutarch has preserved valuable fragments which don't exist elsewhere and need to be assessed by all students of the Persian Wars. Greek text with translation, introduction and commentary. Size: Octavo. 160 pages. Text is in Greek, Modern (1453-). Category: Literature & Literary; Literary Essays; Prose: non-fiction; Literary Essays; Greek, Modern (1453-) Language; ISBN: 0856685690. ISBN/EAN: 9780856685699.