title: The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius (Viking Portable Library)
author:  M. I. Finley 
description: M. I. Finley was a professor of ancient history and master of Darwin College, Cambridge. He died in 1986.
zlib_text: Hellenic Studies 70 
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