# History

**Author(s):** Herodotus
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**Genres:** ancient-history, history, science, essays, psychology
**Pages:** 880
**Publisher:** Penguin Classics
**Published:** Mon Jan 01 2018 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780143107545
**ISBN-10:** 0143107542
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/history

## Description

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.

## SageChimp reader verdict

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