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An Account of Egypt

Herodotus

An Account of Egypt

An Account of Egypt by Herodotus and translated by G. C. Macaulay. HERODOTUS was born at Halicarnassus, on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, in the early part of the fifth century, B. C. Of his life we know almost nothing, except that he spent much of it traveling, to collect the material for his writings, and that he finally settled down at Thurii, in southern Italy, where his great work was composed. He died in 424 B. C. Among these descriptions of countries the most fascinating to the modern, as it was to the ancient, reader is his account of the marvels of the land of Egypt. From the priests at Memphis, Heliopolis, and the Egyptian Thebes he learned what he reports of the size of the country, the wonders of the Nile, the ceremonies of their religion, the sacredness of their animals. He tells also of the strange ways of the crocodile and of that marvelous bird, the Phoenix; of dress and funerals and embalming; of the eating of lotos and papyrus; of the pyramids and the great labyrinth; of their kings and queens and courtesans.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 28, 2018
ISBN13 9781724430038
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 46
Dimensions 216 × 279 × 3 mm   ·   131 g
Language English  

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