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How the world appeared to
#Herodotus in 430 BC. pic.twitter.com/xF3zSZBSLe
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These “Selections from
#Herodotus” belonged to Harriet Clara Jameson of @WheatonCollege I miss that time when people would bear such sweet-sounding names and write in such harmonious handwriting.pic.twitter.com/eYZFZHAQV1
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Macrobians??? The
#Macrobians were a legendary people and kingdom placed in the Horn of#Africa mentioned by#Herodotus. Later writers place them in#India instead and some 19th century writer identifies them with the#Abyssinians or#Makaberab tribe in#Atbarah NE#Sudanpic.twitter.com/HfhCvoBvdg
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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these shinkansen bullet trains.
#AI#Herodotus https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/01/26/national/ai-japan-railway-companies-snow/#.XjnJTY7YqEv … -
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"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."
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Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus. The purpose is to prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time.
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Gather Together and Read: Update on 1000 Books project:
#Herodotus' The Histories: http://www.gathertogetherread.com/2020/01/update-on-1000-books-project-herodotus.html … via@truebookaddict#nonfiction#history#Classics -
Trumps and Netanyahus come and go.
#Palestine was first registered in the book of Histories, by the Greek#Herodotus, 25 centuries ago. It is the land of#olive trees, some live up to several thousand years -
In the submerged ancient port city of Thonis-Heracleion, archaeologists excavated a baris, a common type of Egyptian cargo ship whose construction was detailed by the 5th-century B.C. Greek historian
#Herodotus. http://archaeology.org/issues/366-2001/trenches/8256-digs-egypt-herodotus-ship …pic.twitter.com/moaRSw4plp
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“Many super-wealthy people are unhappy while many who have less are fortunate in the end.” πολλοὶ μὲν γὰρ ζάπλουτοι ἀνθρώπων ἀνόλβιοι εἰσί, πολλοὶ δὲ μετρίως ἔχοντες βίου εὐτυχέες
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#Herodotus doing the#Notallmen misogyny thing 2500 years ago: "Wise men have no time for raped women, since it is clear they they would not have been abducted if they had not been willing themselves."https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2019/10/12/the-cause-of-all-great-wars/ … -
#Steganography = the hiding of a secret message within an ordinary message. In#Herodotus, Histaiaeus shaved his slave's head, tattooed on his scalp, then let the hair regrow. The slave delivered the message to revolt to Aristagoras by shaving his head again#FolkloreThursdaypic.twitter.com/jnYhKbqMlG -
What the Western World inherited from the Ancient
#Greeks 1-#Herodotus who wrote "The#Histories" which details the#GrecoPersianWars. 2- The#AlarmClock which#Plato used to help him get up. 3- The#Olympics, which took place in 776BC & were dedicated to the#GreekGodspic.twitter.com/XAAtevviel
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Travel & Exploration Before Columbus
#history#herodotus#ibn_battuta#marco_polohttps://www.ancient.eu/collection/40/travel--exploration-before-columbus/ … -
Worth noting: earlier European observers, w/o reading
#Herodotus (he wasn’t too important) & based on presence of eastern Christians in the area, had supposed that it represents Christ & his 12 apostles! So it wasn’t just the Iranians who didn’t know abt the Achaemenids! 6/6 kr pic.twitter.com/kTlhmmrtdP
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Herodotus statue at the
#Vienna Parliament in#Austria#Herodotus#Art#Sculpture#Europepic.twitter.com/7LJRAZ5yUu
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#MichaelOndaatje’s#TheEnglishPatient won the#GoldenManBooker prize one year ago today. One of his former school teachers once said that a#BookerPrize for#Ondaatje was a surprise, as he had “always seemed more interested in cricket.”#Herodotus#TheHistories#books#windspic.twitter.com/bIUkKGOog4
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J.D. Beazley's
#Herodotus at the Zoo https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924026623755 … (Gaisford Prize for Greek Prose, 1907; Oxford 1911), see Peter Thonemann@TheTLS https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/sex-and-elephants/ … [$] pic.twitter.com/b8UjkACtMY
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My life has not been in vain...
#Herodotus https://twitter.com/c8lindonnelly/status/1113885650430898176?s=21 …
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