Transantarctic Mountains
Transantarctic Mountains mountain chain stretching across Antarctica from Victoria Land to Coats Land; separating the E Antarctic and W Antarctic subcontinents. Mt. Markham (14,275 ft/4,351 m high), near the Ross Ice Shelf, is the highest peak. Its basement rocks, similar to rocks found in Australia, S Africa, and South America, give credibility to the theory of continental drift.
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Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion's Leap.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 12/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...she blames for the low repute in which Herodotus came to be held as a thinker. "Aristotle scorned Herodotus' 'ancient' way of thought as chaotically...time to reconsider a still older one. "Herodotus' work offers a new foundation in support...
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Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars. By...Divinity and History: the Religion of Herodotus. Oxford, 2000). Both works set out...scholarship. Historians who have used Herodotus' narrative as their window--essentially...
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Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion's Leap.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics; 9/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; Thompson, Norma. Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community...Norma Thompson rests her reading of Herodotus is that man seeks to create community...much about ancient Greece or even Herodotus and his work, as it is about how...
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Readable memoir mixed with Herodotus
Newspaper article from: Winnipeg Free Press; 6/17/2007; 700+ words
; Travels with Herodotus By Ryszard Kapuscinski Knopf, 275 pages...Histories by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. This was a seminal event for Kapuscinski...began his lifelong fascination with Herodotus. The close relationship between Kapuscinski...
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Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Divinity and History: The Religion of Herodotus Oxford: Oxford University Press 332...Thomas Harrison, however, argues that Herodotus's ideas about the role of divine forces...divine intervention in human matters. Herodotus accepts the tradition that godly forces...
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On the road with an Ancient Greek ; The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus by Justin Marozzi (John Murray, [pounds]25)
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 11/3/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the fifth century BC Greek historian Herodotus. Who better to take along as travelling...journalist Ryzsard Kapuscinski chose Herodotus as the theme for his final book, a memoir...English translation of his Travels with Herodotus beat Marozzi to the bookshops by more...
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Herodotus and the cannibals.
Magazine article from: Antiquity; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; In his 5th-century BC Histories, Herodotus provides us with one of the earliest...references pertaining to cannibalism in Herodotus, review the various theories that have...this cultural motif. The accounts of Herodotus In describing the behaviour of the Androphagoi...
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Herodotus.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Herodotus. By James Romm. (New Haven and London...duties of factual accuracy, and indeed Herodotus' own bona fides (6). Literary charm...impact and unexpected parallels that Herodotus discovered and constructed from his sources...
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THE MAN WHO INVENTED HISTORY: TRAVELS WITH HERODOTUS
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 11/2/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...MAN WHO INVENTED HISTORY: TRAVELS WITH HERODOTUS By Justin Marozzi John Murray GBP25 PLUTARCH called Herodotus "the father of lies". But one man...master storyteller. To Justin Marozzi, Herodotus is not only the father of history and...
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Mikalson, Jon D. Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...September 2003 Even casual readers of Herodotus know that the gods figure prominently...United States. As the title indicates, Herodotus and Religion in Persian War has two subjects...religion in the Persian Wars and religion in Herodotus. They are covered in three chapters...
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Herodotus
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
HERODOTUS HERODOTUS. Known as the "Father of History," Herodotus (c. 484 – 424 B.C.E.) was born on the southwest coast of Asia Minor in Halicarnassus, which was at that time a Greek-speaking city ruled by Artemisia, queen...
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( b . Halicarnassus...x3B7; ), which is the actual title of Herodotus ’ book, means simply “...discussing Pythagoras (fr. 129). Although Herodotus ’ “ inquiry ”...
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Hecataeus of Miletus
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...to the ruling class of Miletus, since Herodotus quotes him as playing a leading role...Revolt, 499 – 494 b.c. (Herodotus V. 36, 125 – 126 —...example, fragments 102c, 119) and Herodotus (for example, fragments 127, 300...
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Barbarism and Civilization
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...of these ideas begin in ancient Greece. Herodotus and the Barbarians The Greek historian Herodotus (c. 484 – 420 b.c.e...who do not. Barbarians are the latter. Herodotus writes: "But the Greek stock, since ever...
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Thucydides
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...burst into tears when he listened to Herodotus recite his History. Thucydides caught...no time mentions his great predecessor Herodotus by name, he does correct a number of passages in Herodotus's History; for example, 1.126...
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