Herodotus's Histories
430 BCE* · Work
The first work of history in the Western tradition: an enquiry into the Persian Wars that wanders through half the known world.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Ancient Greece, Persia and Iran, Master, Greco-Persian Wars
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