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Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside
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Are We Going to Learn Much More About the Persian Empire?
We know a lot about Greece because Herodotus was Greek and he writes about the Persian wars. However, one of the wonderful things about Herodotus is that he does try to see the world through Persian eyes. And so when he's writing about the Persians, he is trying to do his best to portray them as they see him. Now, of course, it doesn't work. We don't have a Persian Herodotus, nor do we have indeed a Persian Isaiah. So our sense of the Persians has been mediated through the Bible and through the Greek historians. Hugely. What's happened over the past few decades,. however, is that scholars have basically teamed up
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