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Persian Wars Individual Freedom
1,360 wordsHerodotus, in his book The History, tells us a good deal about how, in the course of the 5 th Century, the Greeks came to define themselves by casting "barbarians" as a negative foil for those traits which they admired in themselves. By barbarians, Herodotus means the Others, those who were not Greek or European. The Persian Wars marked something of a watershed in this regard. Prior to the 480 s the Greek view of their eastern neighbors did not seem to have been excessively negative or hostile. ...
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Waterfield Robin Herodotus Oxford University Press Oxford Story
1,787 wordsQuestioning the Authority of Myth in The Histories History can be defined as the systematic study of and writing about the past (Cartledge, Paul, The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993). Does this mean anything that happened, or that was believed to have happened, in the past can be recorded as history? Or, does one need proof? In Herodotus The Histories, the narrative is arranged in a dramatic form. Modern historians also arrange their narrative in dram...
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Rich And Powerful Divine Justice
1,322 wordsOrestes, the Furies, Croesus, and Cyrus What do all these disparate characters have in common? The answer is that divine justice decides the course that their lives will take. Divine justice plays a large role in both of the works that these characters are from the Oresteia of Aeschylus and The Histories of Herodotus. However, the two works differ on what exactly constitutes divine justice, and how divine justice operates. Aeschylus would argue that divine justice is reactive. In other words, ju...
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Evidence To Support Claim To The Throne
1,568 wordsBorn in c. Xerxes Xerxes Born in c. 519 BC, of the parents King Darius and his wife Atossa came Xerxes. He was raised in the lavish opulence of an eastern court and became the designated heir to his father s throne in which he was to rule over the greatest empire of his time for 21 years. The Persian Empire. He was not the oldest of Darius sons but still became the heir over his oldest brother Artabazanes. There were two main reasons for this, His mother Atossa was the daughter of the great Cyru...
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