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330: Herodotus: The Birth of History
The Rest Is History
The Joy of Herodotus
My favorite story is a story that I was told years ago by the guy who taught me Latin, and he was a very good drawer illustrator. And it's back when there were blackboards and he had chalk. He told the story of a man called Hippoclyades, who was a suitor for the hand of the daughter of a very rich and powerful tyrant. Because the daughter was so eligible, suitors had come from across the Greek world. They'd all gathered in one place at this banquet to see if they could win her heart. The tyrant required them to wrestle, run, fight, to read poetry, to do all the kind of things that an eligible Greek bachelor
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