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Aside from Herodotus's quite obvious anti-Theban bias throughout the text, it is a rather enjoyable and enlightening read for those interested in Greek history or simply looking for a short, but effective read into late antiquity.
Published in 2003.Originally published about 440 B.C.Herodotus, if you don't know, is widely considered to be the West's first historian. He investigated and wrote about the rise of the Persian Empire and the Greco-Persian wars that came as a result of a struggle over Hellenic city-states on the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Turkey. Persia took them over and Athens inspired them to rebel, only to be re-conquered. After that Persia led three separate invasions of modern-day Greece by land and...