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The Histories
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The Histories
by Herodotus (Robin Waterfield, trans.)
The founding text of Western historical writing. Herodotus chronicles the Persian Wars and the clash between the Greek city-states and the Achaemenid Empire, weaving together geography, ethnography, politics, and military history into the first great narrative of civilization in conflict.