Herodotus
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Sep 11, 2026
Noel BadrianNARRATOR
footnote the cloak or mantle as described by thady is of high antiquity spenser in his view of the state of ireland proves that it is not as some have imagined peculiarly derived from the scythians but that most nations of the world anciently used the mantle for the jews used it as you may read of elias's mantle c The Chaldees also used it, as you may read in Diodorus.
Noel BadrianNARRATOR
The Egyptians likewise used it, as you may read in Herodotus.
Noel BadrianNARRATOR
and may be gathered by the description of Berenice in the Greek commentary upon Callimachus.
Noel BadrianNARRATOR
The Greeks also used it anciently, as appeared by Venus' mantle lined with stars, although afterwards they changed the form thereof into their cloaks, called palae, as some of the Irish also use.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
It may be said that Greek myths, especially as handled by the poet who wove them into his deepest criticisms of life, are misleadingly, if not profanely, entitled fairy tales.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
But I would plead that nothing in Greek literature, except the stories of Herodotus, is so steeped in the true fairy atmosphere as are the myths of Pindar.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
I need not speak of Aeschylus, the creatures of whose titanic imagination belong to a universe of their own, but consider, for example, the poet of the Odyssey.
Larry WilsonNARRATOR
His wonder world, though real, lies far away.
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
And I should spend my time to little purpose if I should pretend to teach the Greeks that which they know better than I already.
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
What a great disagreement there is between Hellenicus and Acusilaus about their genealogies, in how many cases Acusilaus corrects Hesiod, or after what manner Ephorus demonstrates Hellenicus to have told lies in the greatest part of his history, as does Timaeus in like manner as to Ephorus, and the succeeding writers do to Timaeus, and all the later writers do to Herodotus.
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
Nor could Timaeus agree with Antiochus and Philistius, or with Callias about the Sicilian history, no more than do the several writers of the Atheidae follow one another about the Athenian affairs, nor do the historians the like that wrote the Argolics about the affairs of the Argives.
Bill MosleyNARRATOR
And now what need I say any more about particular cities and smaller places, while in the most approved writers of the expedition of the Persians, and of the actions which were therein performed, there are so great differences.
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MarianneNARRATOR
The Thracians were also known to them by the nearness of their countries, and the Scythians by the means of those that sailed to Pontus.
MarianneNARRATOR
For it was so in general that all maritime nations, and those that inhabited near the eastern or western seas, became most known to those that were desirous to be writers.
MarianneNARRATOR
But such as had their habitations further from the sea were for the most part unknown to them, which things appear to have happened as to Europe also, where the city of Rome, that hath this long time been possessed of so much power, and hath performed such great actions in war, is yet never mentioned by Herodotus, nor by Thucydides, nor by any of their contemporaries.
MarianneNARRATOR
And it was very late, and with great difficulty, that the Romans became known to the Greeks.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Of the first kind, the mention of one or two distinguished names will furnish a definite type.
speaker_3NARRATOR
To this category belong Herodotus, Thucydides, and other historians of the same order, whose descriptions are for the most part limited to deeds, events, and states of society which they had before their eyes and whose spirit they shared.
speaker_3NARRATOR
They simply transferred what was passing in the world around them to the realm of representative intellect.
speaker_3NARRATOR
An external phenomenon is thus translated into an internal conception.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Such original historians, then, change the events, the deeds, and the states of society with which they are conversant into an object for the conceptive faculty.
speaker_3NARRATOR
The narratives they leave us cannot, therefore, be very comprehensive in their range.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Herodotus, Thucydides, Guicciardini may be taken as fair samples of the class in this respect.
speaker_3NARRATOR
What is present and living in their environment is their proper material.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Here loom up the mountains of the moon.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Here begins the deserta incognita of Herodotus.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
What was the chimera of infinity, or the notion of the primum mobile? Out of what did man create God? Then Josephine wondered if indeed she were the centre of creation, if it were not from her point lopsided, and there followed common speculations.
ExpatriateNARRATOR
Do ghosts exist, she thought? And there came back to her the memory of the ghost of a man who had been killed in France, which she once saw above the ripe cornfields by an August sea.
MaryHOST
Like if you see like a human face in a tree, they call that pareidolia.
MaryHOST
Herodotus.
MaryHOST
And I get it.
MaryHOST
There's that verse in Isaiah 27.1. And it says, And in that day, that means the day of the Lord or judgment day.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
But what I've found is willful ignorance on a scale that's caused me to question this key part of my own identity.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
First referenced by Herodotus in the 5th century BC, Palestine came to include what's now Israel.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
But one British Jew I encountered was adamant that a place called Palestine never existed.
Jillian MosleyNARRATOR
And although Israel Medad, a settler, admits that there was an Arab majority in this country when General Allenby arrived, one Israeli I spoke to thought these numbers were made up.
speaker_5NARRATOR
And their history has a story they told about a king.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Cleomenes of Sparta, Cleoem Ones, spent time among Scythian envoys, learned to drink his wine unmixed as they did, and, according to Herodotus, went mad.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The Spartans said so themselves.
speaker_5NARRATOR
When they wanted to describe a man drinking without water, they had a verb for it, to do it Scythian style.
Michael R. JacobsNARRATOR
It was not until the mid-first millennium BCE that more explicit histories were written.
Michael R. JacobsNARRATOR
For example, Hecateus, Thucydides, Herodotus.
Michael R. JacobsNARRATOR
Methodological concerns and caveats.
Michael R. JacobsNARRATOR
A few points about research issues.
GregHOST
Look, I know I'm jumping around between books quite a bit.
GregHOST
I'm also still reading the histories by Herodotus.
GregHOST
I may have gotten a certain diagnosis lately that I'm just like leaning full into, you know, just being like, well, doctor said it.
GregHOST
So I'm just going to like, I guess.
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