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98. Thermopylae & Salamis Episode 1
The Rest Is History
Herodotus Projecting - The Great Invader
In a sense, we know nothing about xerxes that's not filtered through all this sort of historicizing propaganda. I think the fact that herodotus can say he is also a very impressive figure, i think he does. If he implied, he would not have done that. He would not. No, he wouldn't. And so they cross the hellespont, takes seven days, according to herodotus,. They start marching along northern greece and then down. The fleet is slowly kind of matching it as it slips along the coast line. So there's this sense of this terrifying force coming towards athens, coming towards sparta.
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