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Title: The Madness of Cambyses
Condition: New
EAN: 9780141398778
ISBN: 9780141398778
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 26/02/2015
Language: English
Item Height: 161mm
Item Length: 114mm
Item Width: 6mm
Item Weight: 54g
ISBN-10: 0141398779
Description:

'Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.'

The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodotus of Halicarnassus.

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Herodotus (c.484-425 BCE). Herodotus's The Histories is also available in Penguin Classics.

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