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GBQuotesBot: "Who is sated with success?" - Herodotus

GBQuotesBot: "Soft countries give birth to soft men" - Herodotus

lucnguyenaz: Of all possessions a friend is the mosy precious. - Herodotus

ThailureJay: The video game I bought to play during the spring break is (very) loosely based on the writings of Herodotus so I guess this counts as working, right?

yes_sumit: “It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what may happen.” - Herodotus.

Richard25586416: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. --Herodotus

lolohaney: Herodotus said ancient Egyptian families kept female corpses 4-5 days longer than males to deter embalmers from doing perverted shit….

vinbrown: Herodotus was right! The pyramid was built with several small cranes on the side of the pyramid.

CindyMalina: and the gap between the culture-focused Herodotus and the military-focused

ona48tjld: Herodotus: The Persian War (Translations from Greek and Roman Authors) RUFTFC5

PhilosClassica: “So much, then, for the fish.” ― Herodotus, The Histories

Barbarian_Brain: Herodotus talks about a day each year when 100K animals get wasted then not eaten in Egypt, every year, just one of their many festivals. Unsure how believable it is but it can't be that off I wonder if Christianity improved things by getting rid of all the animal sacrifices?

FKittlerbot: In classical times There was in the immortal words of Herodotus nothing swifter on earth than the clockwork.

GlobinGoblin_: Grrr I need to read the Histories by Herodotus

BulldogTCOB: Two known truths in writing. If Herodotus or Junger proclaim it, it’s gospel

PhilosClassica: “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” ― Herodotus, The Histories

KalawingRiver: "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." Herodotus

DrNWillburger: ... in the 6th century BC covered an area of about 100 hectares. It has been suggested that Pyrene, the polis mentioned by Herodotus, is the Heuneburg. Currently on display in our temporary exhibition "Archaeology and Playmobil" about fortifications. My colleagues have ...2/3

Far_Seeker: These terms Kenaani or Kinaani (Armarna Tablets) also correlate with Herodotus’ record of “Kynesians” or “Kynetes” being beyond the “Pillars of Hercules” (Gibraltar), and beyond the “Celts”. This then is a reference to the Phoenician colonists of Spain/British Isles/Ireland.

abuzzphotoz: If so, why did the great Greek philosophers cross the seas and deserts to study in Africa? Aristotle, one of the greatest of Greek philosophers, wrote in Physiognomonica that "the Ethiopians and Egyptians are very black". Herodotus (also a Greek historian) adds that the ancient

rsitrading: "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." - Herodotus

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CindyMalina: and the gap between the culture-focused Herodotus and the military-focused

patyourownback: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. ~Herodotus

gatch44: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious...... Herodotus

apgInSville: " Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. " - Herodotus

fpchiro: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. Herodotus

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Rforesman1960: Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Herodotus

BrainyQuote: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. - Herodotus

BrainyQuote: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. - Herodotus

IGetU2C: BrainyQuote: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. - Herodotus

IGetU2C: BrainyQuote: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. - Herodotus

harindersrana: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. - Herodotus

harindersrana: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. - Herodotus

bjg211: "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." -Herodotus

TraceysTalisman: "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." Herodotus

Tymon1965: "Of all possessions a friend is the most precious." ~ Herodotus

Mista0wl: IMMORTALS - Based on Herodotus' account of the elite persian guard, but instead of a unit standing 10'000 strong. It's 10'000 souls sharing 1 vessel, when one dies, another takes his place, and they're down to their last man.

speechleyish: Revisiting my extremely old copy of Herodotus and struck by the powerful plus-ça-change vibes emanating from this footnote

GBQuotesBot: "Soft countries give birth to soft men" - Herodotus

termite_colony: It is postulated that the Indian cotton, which Herodotus describes as "a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep" may have even travelled through/beyond the Fertile Crescent towards Greece and Egypt as far back as 4th Millennium BC.

funkhopop: modern historians criticize herodotus for not being muh scientific historian, but hes not trying to do that and his work transcends mere history. It's a combination of history, geography, anthropology, and gonzo style travel reporting on food and culture.

funkhopop: Herodotus remind me most not of modern history but of Caribbean Rhythms or Michael Savage's radio show. Amid his grand narrative he goes on delightful tangents about food, funny stories, and culture matters which masterfully weave back into his narrative.

funkhopop: I like Kagan introduction to herodotus, where he says he used to prefer thucydides for his scientific approach to history, but as he read both more he grew to love herodotus and his tangents which give you the COLOR of history and people.

Civ4TechQuotesE: "A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king." - Herodotus

ariana_farhad: Zoroaster’s name is not mentioned in Herodotus’ Histories (430 BC), Ctesias(401 BC -),Xenophon (430-354BC), Achaemenids 550-330 inscriptions (550-330BC).

retsinokinitoc: makers of this video never heard of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Arrian or even Plutarch ? (I doubt it)

alt_historian: myths, legends and misconceptions of Ancient Egypt dating all the way back from the beginning of history (even Herodotus adds to this long and storied tradition of telling lies about the pyramids). But while reading about some of these lies I can't help but think "this would 2/

JJTweets6: I think that the strong connection that some Greek philosophers (Herodotus, Plato) made between changeability and unreality is hard to appreciate for us because we have lived in a world where so much is recorded. Their history became myth in the astonishingly recent past.

Olof_Pettersson: Did you know that In Greek mythology, Melampus (Μελάμπους), or Blackfoot, was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer were derived from the Egyptians and that he could understand the language of animals.

AntigoneJournal: Apollo and the Nine Muses, Robert Sanderson, late 19th century (University of Edinburgh Fine Art Collection). Does anyone know when and why the nine books of Herodotus' Histories were named after each of the Muses?

TheRestHistory: 1. The Histories by Herodotus (translated by...)

CindyMalina: and the gap between the culture-focused Herodotus and the military-focused

SvarfvarSea: He described the fall of Rome, and in describing western civilization, he effectively used similar concepts that the classical historians like Herodotus and Tacitus had once used to describe the barbarian world outside of European civilization.

PhilosClassica: “Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.” ― Herodotus

fengler_paul: and the spirit of the actions of which he tells [...] one and the same", which Hegel justifies with the fact that historians like Herodotus have described what they" [...] more or less participated in, at least experienced [have]." Among the great pioneers of the philosophy of

sayakanagai: The destiny of man is in his own soul. -Herodotus

PribblePrabble: Maybe listen to some historians. Herodotus wrote about men who would put on fake breasts and dress and live as women. Other cultures have more complex gender structures. It's not new!

joshua_ogbaneme: "If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it." - Herodotus

JohnF_Sullivan: According to Herodotus, the remaining princes split into two groups, and instead of preparing for the coming invasion, began to turn on themselves: “As this was their resolve, they—the princes—split into two groups and, being of about equal numbers, fought against each other…

Cupcake_OotL: Herodotus of Halicarnassus is possibly the world's first fanfic author

PhilosClassica: “philosophical writers after his time: nor again must his simplicity of thought and occasional quaintness be reproduced in the form of archaisms of language; and” ― Herodotus, The history of Herodotus — Volume 1

Godward16: Not to mention Hesiod Herodotus Thucydides Xenophon Polybius Sallust Plutarch Livy Arrian Josephus Tacitus Suetonius Eusebius Bede Aeschylus Euripides They might make people read Antigone? And one Plato dialog and an excerpt of Aristotle.

JohnF_Sullivan: THE FALL OF THE CIMMERIANS Herodotus (4.11) tells one possible story of how the nomadic Scythian tribes conquered the lands occupied by the rival Cimmerian tribe. As the formidable Scythian army approached, the Cimmerians debated their strategy …

CindyMalina: and the gap between the culture-focused Herodotus and the military-focused

reddkaiman: I tend to mix up Herodotus and Herostratus, which is an issue.

exxonenjoyer: My mother and I are discussing Herodotus over beer in beautiful Pittsboro

AndyFri71081779: Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate - Herodotus

HourlyQuotesBot: Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. — Herodotus

Lollardfish: The class with the party was a small honors class and I was told to do something different. So we read Herodotus and Thucydides and not much else. It worked in that specific place and time and cohort and I’ve never done it again.

PhilosClassica: “If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.” ― Herodotus

MikeFul59301531: this is interesting since Herodotus began the more pragmatic approach to history. although he began it, he was still dealing with a lot of fanciful history and would not have had a basis for discounting them

dr_ozgur_london: The myth that the Great Pyramids Of Giza were built by slaves, was created by Herodotus, the Greek historian. It was actually paid laborers that did physical work.

praeludiumOrbis: My 1903 copy of Herodotus Histories arrived!!!

SanctaContagion: Been reading Herodotus lately and my main takeaway so far is that people should never ever ever consult oracles for anything.

ElenaHaskins: Amazon Warriors Did Indeed Fight and Die Like Men Archaeology shows that these fierce women also smoked pot, got tattoos, killed—and loved—men.

_auboutdelanuit: Europe exists as the anti-Asia, defining itself against Asia eternally, beginning with Herodotus: Defining itself against decadence, palace bureaucracy, and above all rejecting the supremacy of the priest and the pencil-pusher over the warrior… The life of freedom at all costs…

PhilosClassica: “They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men.” ― Herodotus, The Histories

KaidenMcCormic2: If we're to be cynical towards the claims of the ancients, Herodotus for example, then should the gaps in his knowledge and the inaccuracies, the blurry parts disprove extensive globalization and knowledge of the wider world. Tales from enough traders and travelers

KaidenMcCormic2: would surely paint a far clearer picture and Herodotus spent many years traveling. Yet the picture is not so clear. Greek pottery in Etruria might show there being foreign interest in trinkets and foreign goods but it does not say much for actual communication.

EnglishJaun: ETYK fully agrees with Herodotus' statements regarding the increase in deposit rates

PhilosClassica: “Men trust their ears less than their eyes.” ― Herodotus

GreatBooksofth2: Herodotus' 'The History' is an excellent book to buy for your son. When I was a boy, I carried my copy nearly everywhere I went. Let him read about real men who did great deeds, men who were mortal and fallible. ...not "superheroes."

GreatBooksofth2: "...human happiness never continues long in one stay." - Herodotus, 'The History'

mazendorf: How did the city-state of Athens defeat the invaders from Persia, the first world empire, on the plain of Marathon in 490 BCE? Clever scholars skeptical of our earliest surviving source, Herodotus, have produced one ingenious theory after another. In this stimulating new book

archaeo_astro: We also know how they lifted things up steep slopes because Gourdon and Enmarch found evidence of a pulley system at Hatnub (an alabaster quarry in the Eastern Desert). I know Herodotus loves his spooky Egypt but not everything's a mystery!

andrewbatson: Loved Tom Holland's answer about why he loves Herodotus in this interview: his "infinite curiosity about the vast expanse of everything"

DsaCult: Reading Herodotus and he says that Ethiopians were considered the most attractive people in the world. Gotta say my experience tracks.

palumbo_adam: if his claims are accurate. And the man who is absent from their talk is wronged, being slandered by the one and assumed to be bad by the other." (Herodotus)

SpencerJulius_: Ancient Tin Trade. The Greek historian Herodotus wrote in the 5th century BCE that “I cannot speak with certainty, about the marginal regions which lie towards the west, in Europe... Nor am I certain of the existence of the Cassiterides Islands, from which we get our tin... In

CindyMalina: and the gap between the culture-focused Herodotus and the military-focused

misha_saul: This is such a great conversion I honestly almost teared up at Holland’s appreciation of Herodotus’s boundless curiosity And the splendour and impact of Persian philosophy Just wonderful

FKittlerbot: And the passion of all writing was in the immortal words of Herodotus nothing swifter on earth than musicals.

mertk35: “They built their city under the loftiest dome of heaven and the best climate in the world.” Herodotus

anothercugel: It's funny cos in Histories Herodotus writes about himself in the third person and he is a very minor general and if you didnt know it was the author you would forgot them fast

AndyHarrisFan: There are only ten known copies of the writings of Julius Caesar, and the earliest one is from 1,000 years after he originally wrote them, making historical accuracy extremely difficult to verify. There are eight known copies of the works of the historian Herodotus, the earliest…

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SpencerJulius_: since this has always been their custom, let them keep to it. Buying and selling in a marketplace is a custom unknown to the Persians, who never make purchases in open marts, and indeed have not in their whole country a single market-place." Herodotus:The Customs of the Persians

ClassicalMyths: "The Bride of Belus" (1885)" by Henri Motte depicts a fanciful scene where a woman is offered up to a Mesopotamian god identified as Bel. Motte believed the ritual was cited by Herodotus, but it was later determined to be an invention.

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