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By Justin Marozzi
In The approach of Herodotus, intrepid trip historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps of Herodotus during the Mediterranean and center East, interpreting his 2,500-year-old observations concerning the cultures and areas he visited, and discovering echoes of his legacy reverberating to today. it's a full of life but thought-provoking day trip into the area of Herodotus, with the guy who invented heritage ever current, guiding the narrative together with his discursive spirit.
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There is economic history, women’s history, demographic history, intellectual history, feminist history, gender history, sexual history, black history, attitudinal history, microhistory, oral history, cultural history, environmental history, psychohistory, history of history, and so it goes on. Historians no longer blush when they say they study the history of slaves, witches, criminals, deviants, capitalists, farmers, virgins. Later we will come across brand-new history textbooks in which the echoes of Herodotus sound like thunder.
When she hears I have come to Bodrum to begin a Herodotean quest, she becomes almost apoplectic with enthusiasm. ‘Oh, this is a great idea! No one is interested in Herodotus any more, believe me. I’ve 35 t u r k ey been trying to get the city to make more of him but they never listen. ’ She says this in a spirit of despair at the city council’s obvious philistinism, as though between making more of Herodotus and making money from tourists there should surely be no contest. She shoots me a warning look.
The Persian plan was straightforward. One half of the expeditionary force, led by Artaphernes, would sail around Attica to begin the attack on Athens, the other would remain at Marathon under Datis to pin down the Greek defenders. Athens, in their absence, would be sacked and burned, raped and pillaged in revenge for its support of the Ionian revolt against the Persian empire a decade earlier. That much was certain. The Persian fleet had already inflicted carnage upon Naxos and Eretria. Athens was next.