Herodotus' Histories was composed well before the genre of Greek historiography emerged as a distinct narrative enterprise. This book explores it within its fifth-century context alongside the extant ...

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Herodotus, the Greek historian who wrote in the 5th century B.C., 500 years before Christ, is the earliest known chronicler and historian of the Egyptian Pyramid Age. By his accounts, the labor ...

Thankfully, alongside the specimens are some incredible illustrations which show very accurately what the animals were like in life, or shortly after death.' When it comes to preserving knowledge ...

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote about Babylon in the fifth century B.C. A number of inconsistencies in his account have led many scholars to believe that he never traveled there and that his ...

Herodotus remarks that Cleisthenes was imitating ... The case of Athens is one among many historic illustrations of Engels’ observation that every revolution is an act of authoritarian coercion.

In this free chapter from Complicated Women, Bee Wilson describes the ways that Edith Piaf’s life and art embodied the needs of her public, and how she became a symbol of postwar French resilience.

His cleverly simple illustrations inject a sense of wonder and playfulness into the daily grind, presenting the world in a ...

This second attempt at gaining power was described by Herodotus as "the silliest trick which history has to record.". Dressed in gleaming armor, he arrived in the city accompanied by a tall and ...

Microsoft is overhauling the illustrations it uses throughout its products and services to make them less flat and more playful and interesting. The previous iteration of illustrations was heavily ...

What is law? From Herodotus and Aeschylus, you would have the chance to learn how democratic Athens defeated the imperial ...