Second volume of the Histories of the famous historian of the 5th century BC, in which books V to IX are brought together. The History of Herodotus is undoubtedly one of the most attractive that ancient Greece has left us. Planned more to be listened to than to be read, it keeps all the charm of the author's personal research in Hellas and in the East at a time that was passing from archaic culture to the classical stage. It contains an outline of the history and customs of the eastern peoples, Egypt, Persia, Lydia, etc., and an account of the medical wars, which ended in the dazzling Athens of Pericles.