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330: Herodotus: The Birth of History
The Rest Is History
The Origins of Herodotus
Herodotus is essentially the first person who is putting down penned biographies of people. We know very little about his biography because people in his age simply weren't interested in recording details like that. Herodotus was born on the westernmost edge of an empire that stretches all the way to India and the Hindu Kush. His history, when he says that his aim is to record the glory of those exploits, which serve to display Greeks and barbarians alike as part of a dominion beyond any previous conqueror.
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