Herodotus
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...
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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...
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Biography EssayHerodotus, 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., abo...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 war...
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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 conce...
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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 cont...
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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 ...
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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 earnes...
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"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 livel...
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Critical Essay by Plutarch
Kapuscinski's reportage remembered
