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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. Plutarch has an essay titled On the Malice of Herodotus, where he notes, among other ...

Al-Masudi rejected the dry historical lists of the 10th century in favor of a radical, eyewitness approach to documenting ...

Cicero called Herodotus the father of history, but he is not a historian's historian in the sense that Thucydides is. Thucydides, the younger man by about 15 years, produced a forthright account of ...

One of the first to attempt to write down an account of the past, Herodotus helped establish a historical tradition that continues to this day. There are two ways to look at the question of who ...

Herodotus is the most entertaining of historians. Indeed, he is as entertaining as anyone who has ever written, historian or not. His great work is many things – the first example of non-fiction, the ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Towards the end of Herodotus' Histories, someone on the losing side of a fight is castrated by his ...

It is easy to see why Herodotus’ Histories may seem overwhelming. Too much is going on, right from the start. We have only just embarked on the Histories’ central theme – the origins of the conflict ...

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