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Vinony

History

by Herodotus

Cover of History
Popularity 453

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.

Ancient HistoryHistoryEarly works to 1800Plataea, Battle of, Plataiai, Greece, 479 B.C.Salamis, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C.LibyansScythiansMarathon, Battle of, Greece, 490 B.C.HistoriographyMacedonians (Ancient)HistoriaeOrigin