Stories of Croesus, Cyrus and Babylon From Herodotus (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Stories of Croesus, Cyrus and Babylon From HerodotusProfessor Church's charming Stories from the ancient classics have established their right to a place among English classics, and their special fitness for the reading Of young pupils will be appreciated in every school where knowledge and culture have the preference above discipline and drill. Of his stories from Herodotus two are given without abridgment in this number, the story Of Croesus and the story of Cyrus, constituting about one half of the volume entitled Stories Of the East. In these stories, says Professor Church, I have kept as close to my original as I could, but I do not profess to have translated it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.