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330: Herodotus: The Birth of History
The Rest Is History
The Importance of Imagination in History
Herodotus is writing what we would now call history, nonfiction, rather than fiction. He distinguishes between the dimension of myth and unverifiable accounts from a very remote past that can't be checked up on. The most notorious example of Herodotus reporting something that clearly sounds mad is when he talks about how people in a desert in India source gold. There's a brilliant theory that maybe they are marmots because there are Marmots in certain regions of the Himalayas.
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