![]() ![]() Andrée Barguet, Gallimard collection Folio, Paris » Introduction of: HERODOTE, (1985), L’enquête (Histories), Livres I à IV, transl. “By presenting his research to the public, Herodotus of Halicarnassus intends to preserve from oblivion the actions of men, to celebrate the great and wonderful deeds of the Greeks and Barbarians, and, regardless of all these things, to develop the motives which led them to make war against each other. As early as Herodotus and Thucydides, the “fathers” of history, the main announced subject of this discipline in the making was undoubtedly war, whether it be Herodotus’ Greco-Persian Wars: ![]() Just as for a long time the infantry was the “queen” of battles, military history was the “queen” of history as a science. ![]()
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