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Histories or, in Latin, Historiae is the name of several works from Antiquity
Classical antiquity

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Histories or, in Latin, Historiae is the name of several works from Antiquity
Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, comprising the interlocking civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome....
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  • The Histories of Herodotus, by Herodotus
  • The Histories, by Timaeus of Tauromenium
    Timaeus (historian)

    Timaeus , Ancient Greece historian, was born at Tauromenium in Sicily. Driven out of Sicily by Agathocles, he migrated to Athens, where he studied rhetoric under a pupil of Isocrates and lived for fifty years....
  • Histories
    The Histories (Polybius)

    Polybius? The Histories were originally written in 40 volumes, only the first five of which are extant in their entirety. The bulk of the work, except for the 40th volume, which was the index volume, is passed down to us through collections of excerpts kept in libraries in Byzantium, for the most part....
    , by Polybius
    Polybius

    Polybius was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic Period noted for his book called The Histories covering in detail the period of 220–146 BC....
  • Histories
    Histories (Tacitus)

    Histories is a book by Tacitus, written c. 100–110, which covers the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasian, and the rule of the Flavian Dynasty up to the death of Domitian....
    , by Tacitus
  • Natural History (Naturalis Historiae), by Pliny the Elder


Histories may also refer to:

  • Histories
    Novel

    File:2009 stapelweise Neuerscheinungen im Buchladen.JPGA novel is today a long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern Romance and in the tradition of the novella....
    , an early term for the then emerging novel
  • "Histories", 10th episode in season 1 of House TV series
  • Horrible Histories
    Horrible Histories

    Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated books published in the United Kingdom andnow from 2007 officially in India by Scholastic . They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant....
    , a series of children's books written by Terry Deary
    Terry Deary

    Terry Deary is a children's author now living in Burnhope, County Durham, England.A former actor, theatre-director and drama teacher, Deary says he began writing when he was 29....