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The Histories of Herodotus
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 450 BCE
- Originally in
- Originally in Ancient greek
- Pages
- Pages 770
A Lydian king named Croesus shows off his treasury to a visiting Athenian sage, who refuses to call any man happy until he is dead. Herodotus of Halicarnassus, writing in the middle of the fifth century before Christ, called his work an inquiry into the great deeds of Greeks and barbarians and the cause of the war between them.
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