![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Histories also stands as one of the first accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire, as well as the events and causes of the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. Moreover, it established the genre and study of history in the Western world (despite the existence of historical records and chronicles beforehand). ![]() Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs. Written in 440 BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Western Asia, Northern Africa and Greece at that time. The Histories of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. THESE are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of thereby preserving from decay the remembrance of what men have done, and of preventing the great and wonderful actions of the Greeks and the Barbarians from losing their due meed of glory and withal to put on record what were their grounds of feuds. The History (Histories) of Herodotus translated by George Rawlinson. ![]()
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