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Biography

Name: Herodotus
Birth Date: c. 485 B.C.
Death Date: c. 425 B.C.
Place of Birth: Halicarnassus, Greece
Place of Death: Thurii, Italy
Nationality: Greek
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of Herodotus
1,364 words, approx. 5 pages
Herodotus (ca. 485 BC-ca. 425 BC) was the first Greek writer who succeeded in writing a large-scale historical narrative that has survived the passage of time. In the lifetime of Herodotus the writing of history, and indeed of prose of any sort, was...
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Biography of Herodotus
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Herodotus, often called the "Father of History," is the earliest and one of the greatest in the pantheon of ancient Greek prose writers. He was born in the early fifth century B.C., about the time of the Persian invasion of Greece that was a major...


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Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡροδοτος, Herodotos) ( c . 484 BC - c . 425 BC ) was a historian, known for his writings on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met...


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Herodotus Summary
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Herodotus Born c. 484 B.C., Halicarnassus, Greece Died c. 425 B.C., Thurii, Greece Herodotus is known as the father of history. His History, an account of the Persian-Greek wars, is considered to be the first attempt at historical writing. Herodotus was...
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Herodotus Summary
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484-420 (or earlier) B.C. Greek Historian Hailed as the "Father of History," Herodotus wrote the first known prose history in Western literature. Writing at a time when history was still a dubious mix of myth and verse, he gathered...
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Herodotus Information
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος Ἁλικαρνᾱσσεύς Hērodotos Halikarnāsseus) was a Greek historian from Ionia who lived in the 5th century BC (ca. 484 BC–ca. 425 BC) and is regarded as the "Father of History". He...


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Kapuscinski's reportage remembered
1/24/2007: 994 words, approx. 3 pages
Ryszard Kapuscinski's chief metier was Africa and Latin America in the throes of violent revolution. As a roving foreign correspondent for Poland's state press agency for more than two decades, he likely witnessed more tumult than any of his peers.But Kapuscinski, who died Tuesday at...
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Anderson Cooper, Dan Rather Jr., Emotes in Sri Lanka
1/9/2005: 2,028 words, approx. 7 pages
Against a mise-en-scène of blue surf, swaying palm trees and a tsunami-flayed beach, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper looked like Jim Caviezel in the Terrence Malick epic The Thin Red Line-an earnest soldier gone AWOL in a remote, tropical hell, searching for meaning in a cruel,...
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The New York Observer
Anthony Weiner, In Mayoral Run, Models On Koch
3/6/2005: 3,844 words, approx. 13 pages
"If I see Anthony Weiner, I'm gonna kick him in the balls!"Woody Johnson was kidding around at the annual winter cocktail party for the Queens County Democrats that was underway at Antun's, a lively wedding-reception rathskeller in Queens Village. The owner of the Jets had...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by J. A. S. Evans
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In the following essay, Evans discusses Herodotus 's treatment of the causes of the Persian invasion of Greece, focusing on the imperialist motives of Xerxes, the fall of Croesus, and the concepts of nomos, aitia and fate that colored Herodotus's account of the Persian Wars.
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Critical Essay by Thomas De Quincey
5,462 words, approx. 18 pages
An English critic and essayist, De Quincey used his own life as the subject of his best-known work, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822), in which he chronicled his addiction to opium. He contributed reviews to a number of London journals and earned a reputation as an insightful if occasionally longwinded literary critic. At the time of De Quincey's death, his critical expertise was underestimated, though his talent as a prose writer had long been acknowledged. In the twentieth century, some...
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Critical Essay by Plutarch
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Plutarch was a Greek biographer and essayist on morals whose works achieved their greatest influence during the Renaissance. Here, he takes strong exception to Herodotus, warning his readers to be wary of the superficial appeal and "charm" of Herodotus' historical writing, which, Plutarch claims, is rife with malicious "slanders " and "grotesquely false ideas. " This essay is believed to have been written between the years 105 and 115.


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