Book 15 May 2014
The Histories
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- Publisher
- Penguin Classics; Penguin Books
- Published
- 15 May 2014
- Ancient History
- History
- Libyans
- Scythians
- Historiography
- Macedonians (Ancient)
- Historiae
- Origin
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.