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9 hours ago · Writing the past begins with history. Writing British history began before Britain was Britain. When Herodotus provided the first formal inquiry into the past, he was castigated for drawing on myth and imagination. The model provided by Thucydides focused instead on factual events and their analysis. The later Anglo-Saxon histories contributed ...
9 hours ago · King Xerxes, also known as Ahasuerus, was a powerful Persian king who reigned from 486-465 BC. He ruled over a vast empire that stretched from India to Ethiopia, comprising 127 provinces ( Esther 1:1-2 ). But Xerxes wasn’t just any king. He was a man of great wealth and power, and he made sure everyone knew it.
9 hours ago · For example, Herodotus, the historian, talks about a group called the ‘Lotophagi’ in his book ‘Histories.’ He says they live in North Africa and eat the lotus plant. This mention helps us understand how the myth might have started from real places and people.
9 hours ago · Ancient Greece portal. Myths portal. v. t. e. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. [2] They were called Olympians because ...
9 hours ago · Over two millennia ago in the mid-fifth century BC, Carthaginians sailed to the Tissia consumed by Asians at the Port of Mapural, Srikakulam district, now in India, wrote Greek historian Herodotus. Four centuries later, Apollonius from Tyre and His Times trace the export of the Tamil pe inferred that pepper and other spices went to China through ports.
9 hours ago · Phalanx: structure, maneuvers, camp. Today, 03: 14 0. It is difficult to determine exactly when individual valor and one-on-one combat ceased to be the main goal on the battlefield, giving way to the coordinated actions of large units. Spartan poet Tyrtaeus, who lived in the 7th century BC. e., argued that already in his time hoplites fought ...
9 hours ago · Encouraged by Peter Frankopan’s warm endorsement on the front cover calling The World a “fantastic achievement” I rolled the dice and gave Mac Sweeney’s book a shot. The West is an intelligent response to those primarily on the political right in North America and Europe who champion a chauvinistic concept of the West.
