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Historian of the Persian Wars, useful and entertaining but based on collected memories after the fact.
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Herodotus
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...about the Battle of Salamis Salamis because of a name named Herodotus uh uh Herodotus who wrote a book called Histories and he's considered..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...about the Battle of Salamis Salamis because of a name named Herodotus uh uh Herodotus who wrote a book called Histories and he's considered..."
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He treats Herodotus as valuable but memory-based and therefore something to take with a grain of salt.
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By Herodotus's time around 400 BCE, Jiang says Egyptians no longer knew how the Great Pyramid had been built and could no longer rebuild one.
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"...about the Battle of Salamis Salamis because of a name named Herodotus uh uh Herodotus who wrote a book called Histories and he's considered..."
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"Okay? So he writes about the Battle of uh uh Thermopylae. Okay? And again at this point in his history the war is over...."
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"...okay? What do the Egyptians remember about the Great Pyramid? So Herodotus was running about 400 BCE, okay? And this is about 2,000 years..."
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"...in human history, the most creative. It gave us Plato, Thucydides, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles. Greek civilization is essentially the foundation for Western civilization...."
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"...it was basically the Romans who invented history I know that Herodotus is the father of history but if you want to but if..."
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"...resupply you've lost the war. All right? So this is from Herodotus. All right? So what's going to happen is the war the battle..."
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"...to marry God. We're just going to marry within ourselves. So Herodotus, in his histories, when he talks about the Jewish people, okay, he..."
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"...trying to tell the world in his poetry um this is herodotus so even if you write the first thing you do is when..."
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"...mainland Greece in 490 BC, Thucydides, sorry, no, not Thucydides, but Herodotus writes about this in his book, Histories. Well, the reason why Persia..."
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"...Greek army okay so that's one example another example is from Herodotus his book histories and it has to do with the Athenian leader..."
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"...Western civilization, okay? You had Homer. You had Plato. You had Herodotus. The Romans"
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"...Roman to Greek. They spoke Greek. And they embraced Greek culture. Herodotus. Plato. Plato were major thinkers that the Byzantine Empire embraced and celebrated...."
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