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The histories

by A. R. Burn, Herodotus, Aubrey Selincourt

A contemporary account of the fifth-century BCE Greco-Persian wars and the rise of the Achaemenid Empire. This text is one of the earliest surviving works of Western history.

Accession 11120 ISBN 0140440348 Publisher Penguin
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