Cover of The Histories

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.