IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-137-39953-3_9.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Father of History: This Time Is Sometimes Different in Markets

In: Trading Thalesians

Author

Listed:
  • Saeed Amen

    (Thalesians)

Abstract

We have peppered a large amount of the book with quotations from Herodotus’ mammoth text The Histories of Herodotus (Herodotus & Macaulay (trans), 1890), also known more succinctly as The Histories. It remains a very well-known work millennia after it was written, as evidenced by the plethora of translations available. These include a recent one by Tom Holland, which was published whilst I was writing my book (Herodotus & Holland (trans), 2013). I found Holland’s translation very readable, and the book also contains an enlightening introduction by Paul Cartledge. Alongside this, I have used quotations from an older text (Herodotus & Macaulay (trans), 1890), which I would also recommend. A somewhat lighter introduction can be found in Travels with Herodotus (Kapuscinski, 2008), which mixes the thoughts of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski during his own travels with passages from Herodotus. If you enjoy Kapuscinski’s take on Herodotus, I would also recommend his book The Shadow of the Sun (Kapuscinski, 2002) about his experiences in Africa.

Suggested Citation

  • Saeed Amen, 2014. "The Father of History: This Time Is Sometimes Different in Markets," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Trading Thalesians, chapter 9, pages 160-178, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-39953-3_9
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137399533_9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-39953-3_9. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.