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330: Herodotus: The Birth of History
The Rest Is History
The Cycle of Great Empires Rise and Fall
Other laws that explain why the Persian wars turned out as they did. Herodotus may well have been sponsored by the Athenians, there is a kind of quite a dark take on Athens in the histories. But with Herodotus, there's also an additional sense that powerful people are driven mad by power and powerful empires are drivenmad by power.
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