The Histories by Herodotus

The Histories

Herodotus is not just the father of the craftsmanship and the study of verifiable written work additionally one of the Western convention’s most convincing storytellers. In stories, for example, that of Gyges—who murders Candaules, the ruler of Lydia, and unsurps his position of authority and his marriage bed, in this manner bringing on, eras later, war with the Persians—he revealed the mind boggling human snares at the center of extraordinary chronicled occasions. In his affection for the more abnormal, more brilliant actualities of the world, he mixed his radiant history with a consistent attention to the mythic and the great.