# The Portable Greek Historians

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- Book: [The Portable Greek Historians](https://www.bookquiver.com/m-i-finley/the-portable-greek-historians) ([The Portable Greek Historians.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/m-i-finley/the-portable-greek-historians.md))
- Authors: [M. I. Finley](https://www.bookquiver.com/m-i-finley)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4015-065-0
- Pages: 512
- Published: 1977-09-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Essential passages from the works of four " fathers of history"—Herodotus's History, Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, Xenophon's Anabasis, and Polybius's Histories.