- genre:historiography, genre:history, Ancient History, History
One of the earliest histories of the western world still extant, this gives a contemporary account of the Greco-Persian wars of the fifth century BCE with the rise of the Achaemenid Empire under Cyrus the Great.
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Epic, earnest, plot-driven and cool.
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- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Ἡρόδοτος
- First published
- 1494
- Pages
- 562
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing, D. Appleton & Co., Fondazione Lorenzo Valla
- Editions
- 284
- Language
- German, rum, lat, Italian
- ISBN
- 9788424900861
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