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Athenian Letters: or, the epistolary correspondence of an agent of the King of Persia, residing at Athens during the Peloponnesian war. Containing the history of the times, in dispatches to the ministers of state at the Persian court. Besides letters on various subjects between him and his
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and appeared in two volumes (1741 and 1743), initially in a very small private edition. Others involved, anonymously, were
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Philip C. Yorke, The Life and Correspondence of Philip Yorke Earl of Hardwicke, pp. 207.8.
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While still college students, the brothers Yorke planned the work, which was begun in 1739
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history and geography, published by a circle of authors around
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Ancient Greek
Charles Yorke
Philip Yorke
Thucidydes
Thomas Birch
Henry Coventry
John Green
Catherine Talbot
Daniel Wray
William Heberden
Chisholm, Hugh
"Hardwicke, Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of" 
Encyclopædia Britannica
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1741 non-fiction books
1743 non-fiction books
18th-century history books
History books about ancient Greece
Collaborative non-fiction books

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