The Madness of Cambyses by Herodotus

The Madness of Cambyses

Penguin Little Black Classics #78

Herodotus with Tom Holland (Translator)

fiction classics history challenging dark informative slow-paced

64 pages | first published -400

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'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. Introducing Little Black Cla...
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