![]() ![]() Perhaps most importantly, it stands as one of the first, and surviving, accounts of the rise of the Persian Empire, the events of, and causes for, the Greco-Persian Wars between the Achaemenid Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century BC. ![]() Moreover, it established without precedent the genre and study of history in the Western world, although historical records and chronicles existed beforehand. It is not an impartial record but it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs. ![]() Written from the 450s to the 420s 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 around the Mediterranean and Western Asia at that time. The Histories of Herodotus is considered one of the seminal works of history in Western literature. ![]()
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