How the West was won This retelling of the epic battles between the Greeks and the Persians sets Peter Jones's pulse racing

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: September 11, 2005| Author: Peter Jones | Copyright information

WHEN THE great story-teller Herodotus launched his enquiry (historia) into the origins of the Persian Wars (490-479 BC, culminating in battles between Greeks and Persians at Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea), he might have been quite surprised to learn that he was about to invent the genre we know as "history''.

Herodotus' enquiry is in narrative form; it covers wars, politics, personalities, cultures and customs, all linked by complex, world- wide chains of cause and effect;...

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