Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

A monumental historical treatise! Part One.

The work consists of nine parts—“Clio,” “Euterpe,” “Thalia,” “Melpomene,” “Terpsichore,” “Erato,” “Polyhymnia,” “Urania,” and “Calliope.”

In them, the author tells stories of the rise and fall of kings, cruel wars and glorious feasts, discoveries by seafarers and mysterious phenomena…

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian (5th century BC), author of the famous book “The Histories,” which laid the foundation for historiographical science. Here are collected the well-known at the time facts about the lands surrounding Ancient Greece and the peoples living there—information preserved thanks to the author and became for all humankind the original source of knowledge about the ancient world.

The book contains a great deal of geographic, ethnographic, natural-historical, and literary information about the Persian kingdom, Egypt, Scythia, as well as other kingdoms and lands where the culture of the Western world found its origin and meaning.