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Book · 440 BC · Nonfiction

The Histories

Herodotus
Pantheon (Penguin Random House) · 1024 pages
★ 7.5 editorial score

History begins with Herodotus asking why Greeks and Persians fought, and reaching Thermopylae by way of Egyptian mummies and gold-digging ants. He reports the rumors too, and lets you judge.

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440 BCDepicts Classical Antiquity

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