Meaning of Herodotos | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“Perhaps the most surprising characteristic, however, of Herodotos’ literary work⟳ is the outward unity which he has so largely succeeded in giving to this somewhat heterogeneous mass of information concerning nearly all the nations of the earth then known to the Greeks.”

“They are shadowed by a robed chorus of Beckettian sages--Homer (Joseph Grimm), Hesiod (Gary Kelley), Herodotos (Daniel Parker) and Thucydides (Michael Rivkin)--given to Joseph Campbell-like pronouncements on the power of myth.”

“The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call⟳ to the Russians to look⟳ to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones.”

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