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The histories / Herodotus ; translated by Aubrey de Selincourt ; revised, with an introduction and notes by A. R. Burn

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.

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