The Battle of Thermopylae Nov 14, 2009
This was a major battle fought during the invasion of Greece that the Persian king, Xerxes I, led from 480 and 479 BC. While this conflict ended in victory for the Persian Army, the battle is remember primarily for the bravery shown by the Greeks led by their celebrated Spartan king, Leonidas I. According to Greek Historian Herodotus of 475 BC, Leonida s was a fiery and aggressive Spartan leader who led his men with relentless determination. Thermopylae Battlefield Analysis. (Suite101.com)
The Great Macaulay Nov 13, 2009
And give them Macaulay does, on subjects as diverse as Juvenal, Thucydides, Suetonius, Herodotus, Demosthenes, the 17th-century Scottish Royalist general Montrose, and the correct translation of the Greek term philokerdes. One might wonder what the polymathic Macaulay did when not reading or writing. (The American Conservative)
Primary Source Documents and Histor... Oct 23, 2009
This includes Herodotus, Josephus, Livy, and Suetonius ... Herodotus once stated that he recorded the facts of the past, but he didn t have to believe them. (Suite101.com)
Kapuscinski's wonderment Oct 5, 2009
The journalist, Herodotus and far distant places ... In his final book, Travels With Herodotus, Kapuscinski is free at last to admit his ignorance, to confess his incomprehension, to acknowledge his bewilderment ... This, contemplating the Great Wall: ''They00004000 ; commenced building when the Buddha and Herodotus were alive and were still building it when Leonardo da Vinci, Titian and Johan Sebastian Bach were at their labours in Europe. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
There was never any doubt on UGA-FLA in JAX Sep 25, 2009
8:05 am September 24, 2009, by Tony Barnhart. Five burning questions as we head into the weekend. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Father embeds to tell fallen soldier's story Sep 17, 2009
He had been a rebellious child and often spent long hours in detention, where he read voraciously: Nietzsche, Descartes, Herodotus, Plato. In Iraq, he would rely on intellectual writings to ponder lofty concepts like what constitutes a just war. (CNN)
Leadership Traits of Cyrus the Grea... Aug 29, 2009
According to the Ancient Greek historian Herodotus, his grandfather was warned in a dream that the boy would one day become king ... Herodotus claims that Cyrus was reared by a she-wolf (similar in nature to the Roman myth of Romulus and Remus). (Suite101.com)
Another View: Till death do us part Aug 19, 2009
They held out for seven days, fighting until their weapons broke and then, Herodotus says, "with bare hands and teeth." Their spirit lives whenever wounded soldiers ask to return to their units rather than rotate home or sentries rest their chins on the point of a bayonet to stay awake so others sleep safely. Before going into harm's way, we reflect on this remarkable aspect of combat. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Great Wall of confusion Aug 1, 2009
He bemoaned in his last book, Travels with Herodotus, that he failed to penetrate the country, and never slipped the control of his minders. But he did make a trip to the Great Wall, where he marvelled at the Chinese propensity to build walls. (FT.com -- Markets)
Ben Mezrich defends his approach to nonfiction writing Jul 19, 2009
Forgiving observers call Mezrich s approach an extension of a nonfiction tradition that has roots in Greek historian Herodotus and branches in the New Journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe. As Thompson wrote in jacket copy for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas about his own technique, In the end I found myself imposing an essentially fictional framework on what began as a piece of straight/crazy journalism. (Boston Globe)
Ancient fortress city unearthed in Egypt Jul 15, 2009
One of the forts on the "Ways of Horus," an ancient military and trade route that connected Egypt with the East, Daphnae is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus (484-425 B.C.), who described it as Psammetichus I's guard post "against the Arabians and .". First excavated in 1886 by the English Egyptologist , who recognized it as Psammetichus I's camp for Greek mercenaries, the desert site has since been flattened by wind erosion, which left the archaeological remains originally unearthed by... (MSNBC -- Environment)
Think About It- Lost dreams of our forefathers Jul 10, 2009
A classical education was the standard of the day they studied the likes of Vergil, Horace, Justinian, Nepos, Caesar, Tacitus, Lucretius, Eutropius, Phaedrus, Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato. They studied the writings of great philosophers and learned the lessons of history and about the evils of tried and failed experiments in government. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
The Origins of Healthy Herbs and Sp... Jun 30, 2009
The traders were secretive about where their spices were grown and even told Herodotus (a Greek historian) that cinnamon grew in the jungles along the Nile River and that it was guarded by large ferocious birds. In fact the cinnamon grew in Ceylon and was across the Indian Ocean on rafts to Madagascar and from there it was taken to the Red Sea. (Suite101.com)
Sennacherib's Siege of Jerusalem 70... May 16, 2009
The Greek historian Herodotus gives a different account, suggesting that a plague of rodents disabled the weapons of the Assyrians forcing them to withdraw ... The Annals of Sennacherib, Herodotus account, and the Old Testament narrative corroborate that Hezekiah ultimately bought off Sennacherib with 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver. (Suite101.com)
* [HARDCOVER: US] There goes the neighborhood May 3, 2009
The philosopher Isaiah Berlin famously divided thinkers into two categories: hedgehogs (like Plato, Pascal, Hegel, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, Ibsen and Proust), who know one big thing and tend to view the world through the lens of a single organizing principle, and foxes (like Herodotus, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Goethe, Balzac and Joyce), who know many things and who pursue various unrelated, even contradictory ends. According to Joshua Cooper Ramos provocative new book, The Age of the... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Oriental Institute takes Persian Empire into digital age May 1, 2009
The oldest Greek tragedy of Aeschylus, and the first Greek history of Herodotus tell us about the reign of Darius, but they don t tell us anything like this. The administration that these documents record touched every level of society, from lowly workers through bureaucrats and governors to the royal family itself, he said. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Israel's FM: Concessions Invite War Apr 2, 2009
The name Palestine, for example, comes from the Greek Historian Herodotus who coined the term sometime around 400 BC. When the Romans were there, when the Byzantine empire ruled over the land, when the Crusaders came over, when the Mongolians invaded, when the Turks dominated the entire Middle East, and when the British took over the area, they all refered to the land as Palestine. What's so amazing about all of this is that there's not a single map, not a single book, not a single document... (CBS News -- World)
History of Berrien available thanks mainly to one man Mar 28, 2009
What is interesting is that Coolidge himself in his listing within his own publication and in other biographical sketches written to introduce him at lectures, omits the school entirely, speaking only of his 'grammar school years" being followed by his studies at the University of Michigan, where he graduated from the literary department in 1863 and his subsequent years at the Cambridge Law School, from which he graduated in 1865 before joining his father, Henry H. Coolidge, in the practice of... (Niles Star, MI)
'Aladdin's Lamp,' by John Freely Mar 23, 2009
If Herodotus himself acknowledged the superiority of Egyptian astronomical observations, is ancient Greece really the correct starting point for a narrative of scientific progress. If Pythagoras advanced geometry but also founded a religious cult based on numerology and mysticism, can we really justify our self-congratulatory categorization of the Greeks as rational and the Persians as religious. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Sony e-book reader gets 5L books Mar 19, 2009
The scanned books were all published before 1923, and include works like Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" as well as nonfiction classics like Herodotus' "The Histories.". The books are already available as free downloads in the Portable Document Format (PDF), which works well on computer screens but not on e-book readers. (India Times)
Egypt: Egypt, Not Greece, Inspired Western Civilisation Mar 18, 2009
Nairobi Although we might not think of calling these fathers of Western thought Afro-centrist, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, and Hippocrates all acknowledged the debt owed by Greece to Egypt ... After years spent travelling throughout Egypt, investigating and recording history, Herodotus unfortunately never made it south of the Sahara. (allAfrica.com)
Ancient Sardis in Asia Minor Mar 1, 2009
In the legendary story recounted by Herodotus, Croesus sought the advice of oracles, eventually asking the most famous oracle at Delphi in Greece whether he should attack Cyrus. The answer he received was that if he attacked Cyrus, a great empire would fall. (Suite101.com)
Faith and good works Mar 1, 2009
She is now leading herself on a self-taught journey through books for adults, starting with "The Histories" by Herodotus, "The Odyssey" by Homer, "The Republic" by Plato, "Confessions" by St. Augustine, and the "Divine Comedy" by Dante. And, every day since she was 9, she has read either the Bible or the Book of Mormon. (Boston Globe)
Justin Marozzi's"The Way of Herodotus" Feb 21, 2009
Justin Marozzi's"The Way of Herodotus" - International Herald Tribune. Justin Marozzi's"The Way of Herodotus" ... The Way of Herodotus Travels With the Man Who Invented History. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Ancient Roads of Persia and Rome Feb 13, 2009
The Histories of Herodotus also mention the utility of Cyrus road, crediting the road with the facilitation of an efficient spy network. In terms of trade and commerce, the road brought India and East Asia together with the Middle East and the Mediterranean. (Suite101.com)
