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History (new Translation and Annotated Edition of Herodotus) (set of 2 Volumes)

(ancient Greece) Herodotus

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The Histories written by Herodotus is the first historical masterpiece in the West. It focuses on the Greco-Persian War and narrates a large number of historical events and materials. In fact, it became an "investigation and research report" on the history and culture of various peoples in the world that the Greeks knew at that time. The whole book takes the relationship between Greeks and foreigners as the main line, describing the geographical environment, ethnic distribution, economic life, political system, historical events, customs, religious beliefs, places of interest, etc. In Lydia, Media, Babylon, Egypt, Persia, India, Scythia, Libya and the Greek Aegean Sea region.