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          Cleobis and Biton

          The Historiai of Herodotus is a fantastic book filled with interesting stories.

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          6. While the title is often translated simply as Histories, the Greek historia is acually better understood as meaning “inquiry”. The Historiai take as their subject the Persian Wars, but Herodotus devotes much time to researching, visiting, and reporting back stories about the Greeks, as well as their enemies, the Persians, including tales about and from the people the Achaemenid Empire had conquered.

          As such, Herodotus isn’t really the “father of history” so much as he’s the world’s first investigative reporter.

          He wasn’t contend to just write about events that happened: he wanted to understand the motives behind people’s actions and to get an idea of the culture and worldviews of people who weren’t Greek. As a result, large parts of his work are devoted to studies of the ancient Egyptians, the Scythians, and the Lydians, who had all been conquered by the Persian behemoth.

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