The histories
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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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Loeb Herodotus is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in -450 with contributions by Herodotus.

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