Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    history · 5th century BCE · 2 crossings

    The Histories

    ἹστορίαιHistoriai

    Herodotus, in Greek

    The display of Herodotus's inquiry, so that things done by man not be forgotten in time. Valla carried him into Latin in the same papal project that moved Thucydides.

    The chain

    c. 430 BCE Greek original

    written by Herodotus

    1. c. 1452–1457 Greek Latin translation attested

      translated by Lorenzo Valla commissioned by Pope Nicholas V in Rome

      The second Greek historian Valla carried for the papal court; finished as his own life ran out.

    2. 1920–1925 Greek English translation attested

      translated by A. D. Godley in London

      The Loeb English; the text carried in this library.