Herodoti Libri Novem Quibus Musarum Indita Sunt Nomina.

Herodotus.

Herodoti Libri Novem Quibus Musarum Indita Sunt Nomina.

Venice

Aldus Manutius

September 1502

This is the editio princeps of the first work that can truly be called history in the modern sense. Rather than a mere chronicle of the events of the Persian Wars, Herodotus’s History attempts to identify cause and effect, while placing the wars into the larger context of Greek history. Each of the chapters is named for one of the nine Muses. In his preface, Aldus claims to have edited and corrected the text from multiple exemplars. Bound in contemporary Roman calf.

From the collection of G. Scott Clemons.