The GreeksThe First Historians

Herodotus: The Histories

The first great history: why Greeks and Persians went to war, with every story he heard along the way.

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5 of the 1990 set
Author
Herodotus (c. 484–c. 425 BC)
Work
The History (the Persian Wars) c. 430 BC

Ideas: Telling the past War and its causes Freedom and its limits

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