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330: Herodotus: The Birth of History
The Rest Is History
Herodotus: The First Travel Writer
Hectius of my litus is a center of, as you said, sort of a proto-enlightenment. And there are accounts, aren't there, of writers who had done nonfiction before? So Thucydides bitches about Herodotus and Herodotus seems to have been a very genial man. But he has this, Hectius, he clearly hates. And is endlessly dissing him. Right. It's Hectius who goes to Egypt and a bit like Plato's account in Atlantis, where Solon goes and is laughed at by the priests. He says, you know, you Greeks are children. A similar thing happens to Hect
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