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330: Herodotus: The Birth of History
The Rest Is History
Herodotus and the Trojan War
Herodotus' account, his inquiries and that's what history means. It's an enormous shaggy dog story because just when you think that he's going to go into kind of details about how it is that say the Persians become part of the story, he doesn't. And then before you know it, you've got a story about a guy who's been captured by pirates and he escapes them by jumping into a sea while he's playing his loot,. He lands on a dolphin and gets taken to dry land. And so it goes on and so much more. So that's the wonderful thing about Herodotus and why he is not just my favorite historian, but
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