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“Never start a land war in Asia”

- #Herodotus

#HistoryMemes #history

#Herodotus knew all this.

#history

Why did Herodotus have such a hate-on for Cyrus the Great?

https://multiverse.soulism.net/c/askhi[email protected]/p/169350/why-did-herodotus-have-such-a-hate-on-for-cyrus-the-great

#history #Herodotus vía @arbevere

There's a bit in Herodotus' book where he describes Xerxes weeping because everyone in his great army will be dead in a hundred years time. Taken on its own you might think how sensitive he is, but a few pages earlier he had someone he had never met cut in half to make a point to someone else.

#Herodotus

I did not expect to actually enjoy reading #Herodotus #Histories so much.

Father of History and Father of Lies

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1856753/father-of-history-and-father-of-lies

How does #Persia play into the #ThirdRome #philosophy?

#TomClancy #Herodotus #history #storytelling

So Mossad and Saudis joined forced to run a psy-op on POTUS to light up Persia?

This #TomClancy remix of #Herodotus is wild af.

#history #storytelling

https://theconversation.com/authoritarian-rulers-arent-new-heres-what-herodotus-an-early-greek-historian-wrote-about-them-259127 #Authoritarian rulers aren’t new – here’s what #Herodotus, an early Greek historian, wrote about them

AO THROWBACK - Herodotus describes the Scythians living in the area north of the Black Sea about three thousand years ago. https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/tattooed-scythian-warriors-descendants-amazons-part-one-001155

#archaeology #ancient #history #AncientOrigins #historymatters #historylovers #historyfacts #mythology #Scythians #Herodotus #BlackSea

[Thread] So, my "homework" assignment has to do with #Amazons -- one of my favorite topics to focus on (since I was 11 years old). I was recently gifted a new book about Amazons, and also had one that I picked up for myself years ago, but hadn't gotten around to reading yet. The books are: "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across The Ancient World" by Adrienne Mayor (2014), and "Amazons: The History Behind the Legend" by David Braund. Both of them are Classics scholars, but they seem to have completely different takes on Amazons (from what I've read in the reviews). And yes, I am planning on diving into both books, but first, I'm going to work on my own translations of certain passages in #TheIlliad and #Herodotus' "Histories"!

#Classics #Histodon #AncientGreece #BronzeAge #WarriorWomen #AncientHistory #WomenInTheAncientWorld

Recently found this copy of The Histories by Herodotus at Goodwill. I love thrift stores and buying secondhand. 😃📚 I should start reading it... :blobcatread:

#thrifting #books #bookstodon #history #herodotus #reading #Photography

“Herodotus went HARD”, archeologists say.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/spectral-cavalcade-early-iron-age-horse-sacrifice-at-a-royal-tomb-in-southern-siberia/80E0B627528E00EA7C2AE4456F182DAC

#archeology #scythians #herodotus #history #antiquity

The horse in the grave, or: Where did (later) #Scythian #burial tradition (most prominently described by #Herodotus) originate? 🐴🏺

Huge congrats on some really exciting research! 👏

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2800-year-old-burial-mound-with-sacrifices-unearthed-in-siberia-is-eerily-similar-to-scythian-graves via @LiveScience

The Greek historian #Herodotus wrote, "There is nothing in the world that travels faster than these Persian couriers." Herodotus's praise for these messengers— "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"— was inscribed on the James Farley Post Office in New York and is sometimes thought of as the United States Postal Service creed.

#history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Road

#LaconicPhrase
#Spartan
#humor
#Wiki

#Herodotus: "When the banished Samians reached Sparta, they…made a long speech, … greatly in want of aid. …the Spartans averred that they could no longer remember the first half of their speech, and thus could make nothing of the remainder. Afterwards the Samians … simply said, showing a bag which they had brought with them, 'The bag wants flour.' The Spartans answered that they did not need to have said 'the bag'; however, they resolved to give them aid."

Ancient Scythians used human skin for leather, confirming Herodotus' grisly claim

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-scythians-used-human-skin-for-leather-confirming-herodotus-grisly-claim

#archaeology #ancient #history #herodotus #ukraine

"οὔτε γὰρ #ἄρχειν οὔτε #ἄρχεσθαι ἐθέλω"

"oúte gár #árchein oúte #árchesthai ethélo"

"I want neither to #rule nor to be #ruled"

[Ιστορίαι (#Ηροδότου)/Θάλεια, 83.2]

#αναρχία #anarchy #Herodotus

StarkWare, Herodotus launch tech to verify data from any point in Ethereum's history - Storage Proofs could prove useful for services like account recov... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/stark-ware-herodotus-launch-tech-to-verify-data-from-ethereum-blockchain #storageproof. #herodotus #starkware #zk-proof