Herodotus
In Our Time: History
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A History of History - A Brief History of Hrolotus
He's been in and out of fashion hrolotus for over two thousand years. He was always seen as a charming story teller, but just a rather a kind of naive recorder of other people's accounts. His focus on who is telling what story in their own from their own perspective mirrors the polyphanous effect of social media. But i think there also about the way in which he reflects our experience of hearing many stories and trying to make sense of them. So we appreciate him perhaps as in some ways, a founder of anthropological and ethnographical approaches.
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