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330: Herodotus: The Birth of History
The Rest Is History
Herodotus and the Persian Wars
Herodotus was able to see it from both Greek and Persian perspectives. But these accounts, they are tinged with a kind of... I don't know whether Greek chauvinism is the right expression. Maybe that's too loaded. But he wants the Greeks to win. There's very partisan, isn't it? Yes, it is partisan. That doesn't mean that you don't try and get a Persian perspective, which is what he's clearly doing when he's interviewing the sander of al-Kaminas.
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