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The Histories
by Herodotus
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Herodotus’s Histories is a major source for the Greco-Persian Wars and the wider world that led to them. It covers Persian, Lydian, Egyptian, Scythian and Greek settings before moving into the Ionian Revolt, Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis and Plataea. The work is valuable for readers wanting narrative detail about places, customs, rulers, battle traditions and the way Greeks later explained the Persian invasions.