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historian, usually called the Father of History. The work of Herodotus is the oldest enduring foremost Greek prose and the first annals in Western civilization. He was born at Halicarnassus, a Greek state under Persian direct, in southwest...
are many fine and sobering morality tales to be relished, such as that of Croesus, monarch of Lydia, who was suggested by the oracle: "if he made conflict on the Persians he would decimate a strong empire." Structure Rivaling any best-sell...
Herodotus’ main subject is the Persian Wars, invasions of the Greek mainland in 490 and 480–479 BCE. His work contains numerous digressions into earlier history, especially the hostility between Greeks and barbarians (non-Greeks) and the ri...
Thucydides versus Plato on the nature of the Good Life. Some have claimed that Thucydides is making empirical claims, whereas Plato is making normative claims. The basis of Plato's theory about the good life is based on the idea that everyt...
busts that include, several of the Twelve Olympians, characters from classical mythology, ancient Greek philosophers and ancient Romans of the imperial era, plus other sculptures. Thucydides was a Greek historian who was born in Alimos amon...
of Athens around the year 460 BCE to a wealthy, aristocratic family. At that time, Athens was the center of a flourishing empire, kept under tight control with the help of an impressive military force hardly matched by any of the other powe...
what they are saying is best for everyone. He outlooks this as both a necessity for the government to effectively function, but at the same time he sees it as a way for the speaker to gain power in the interest of himself and not the state....