Historiai

ἱστορίαι

Lives, deeds, and times, told from the old historians themselves — what was done, and who says so.

“…so that things done by man not be forgotten in time, and that great and marvelous deeds, some displayed by the Hellenes, some by the barbarians, not lose their glory”

— Hdt. 1.1 · The Histories, Godley’s translation · served on this shelf

The doors

lives the figures of the record deeds what was done, with its when times the editor's table of years the shelf the historians, served verbatim sources editions, licenses, provenance

A room in the hall — one life, standing for the shelf

Themistocles

kind: person · 280 mentions across 129 episodes of the record — counted by the house’s first pass

The record here: The Histories, Herodotus — Godley, 1920–25 · Parallel Lives, Plutarch — Perrin, 1914–26 · 166 works · 12,119 episodes served