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Category: Herodotos

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Book Notes

August 11, 2010 John FarrellLeave a comment

Hesiod and the ‘mythographers’ had developed the method to understand the stories of the gods, but we know of no one before Herodotos who had tried to gather memories and documents together on such a scale to tell a connected story about the past. It was a very brave undertaking: the Persian Wars had finished… Continue reading Book Notes

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