История в девяти книгах

Gerodot - avtor knigi, polozhivsheĭ nachalo istoriograficheskoĭ nauke. Znachenie ego "Istorii" kak istochnika*nashikh znaniĭ ob antichnom mire trudno pereot͡senitʹ. V knige soderzhitsi͡a mnozhestvo geograficheskikh, ėtnograficheskikh, estestvenno-istoricheskikh i literaturnykh svedeniĭ o Persidskom t͡sarstve, Egipte, Skifii, a takzhe drugikh t͡sarstvakh i zemli͡akh, v kotorykh obrela svoe rozhdenie i smysl kulʹtura Zapadnogo mira. Odnako osnovnai͡a prichina neuvi͡adai͡ushcheĭ populi͡arnosti Gerodota - potri͡asai͡ushchai͡a uvlekatelʹnostʹ ego tekstov, napisannykh izi͡ashchnym slogom, prevrashchai͡ushchikh istoricheskiĭ material v skazochnoe puteshestvie po Drevnemu miru.

Herodotus is the author of the book that marked the beginning of historiographical science. The significance of his "History" as a source of our knowledge about the ancient world cannot be overestimated. The book contains a lot of geographical, ethnographic, natural-historical and literary information about the Persian kingdom, Egypt, Scythia, as well as other kingdoms and lands in which the culture of the Western world found its birth and meaning. However, the main reason for the unfading popularity of Herodotus is the amazing fascination of his texts, written in an elegant style, turning historical material into a fabulous journey through the Ancient World.