For anyone who is even as slightly interested in ancient history, reading Historian is a must - this, after all, is the book that has given "history" its name. But this book is thing else than a mere account of dates, battles and names - it brings to live the 5th and 6th centuries BCE, with fascinating tales of human virtues and vices, of honor and cruelty, of visions and nightmares, of achievements and defeats, of lives and deaths. Piece in his activity the factual blends with the mythological and the fantastic, Historian ne er loses sight of the actual historical events of the epoch-making confrontation between the Greeks and the all powerful Persian Empire.

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