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330: Herodotus: The Birth of History
The Rest Is History
Herodotus's Ability to Think Himself Into the Shoes of Others
Herodotus is hugely respectful of the Persians. He admires them as a people. It's Herodotus who records the Persian maxim that boys should be taught to ride, to shoot a bow and to tell the truth. And even Xerxes, the Persian king who in a bill's great bridges of boats across the Hellersponton lashes the waters when a storm breaks them. That is a perspective of tragedy. But it is an attempt by Herodotus to sit on Xerxes throne and to imagine, well, what would he think? How would he feel?
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