Father of History
Herodotus, the Father of History, as named by Cicero wrote what many consider the first great western history. This even before another famous author, Thucydides, wrote of the tragic Peloponnesian War. This rather long article performs an interesting exigesis on the work within the constext of a review of a newly published translation. It is well worth reading even if the end is overwrought by attempting a not so veiled analogy between Darius the Great, his son Xerxes and the two President Bushes.
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