Herodotus
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The ''Histories'' primarily cover the lives of prominent kings and famous battles such as Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale. His work deviates from the main topics to provide a cultural, ethnographical, geographical, and historiographical background that forms an essential part of the narrative and provides readers with a wellspring of additional information.
Herodotus was criticized in his times for his inclusion of "legends and fanciful accounts" in his work. The contemporaneous historian Thucydides who covered the infamous Peloponnesian War in his ''History of the Peloponnesian War'' would separately accuse Herodotus of making up stories for entertainment. Herodotus retorted that he reported what he could see and what he was told. A sizable portion of the ''Histories'' has since been confirmed by modern historians and archaeologists. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Herodotus
ed. by Brodersen, Kai, Brodersen, Kai, Brodersen, Kai, Ley-Hutton, Christine, Ley-Hutton, Christine, Ley-Hutton, Christine
Published 2019
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