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How the West was lost - and won ; MILITARY HISTORY ++ Thermopylae: The battle that changed the world By Paul Cartledge MACMILLAN [pound]20
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This new look at what might just be the most important battle in
Western history - even if "we" lost it - is both an enthralling
account of the battle itself, and a fascinating argument about it.
Cartledge is one of the world's acknowledged experts on Sparta,
and his understanding of that grim warrior people - the samurai of
their day, he suggests - is impressive. He vividly reconstructs
their finest hour, first examining mobilisation and preparation, and
then the broiling August day ...
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Readable memoir mixed with Herodotus
Winnipeg Free Press
; Travels with Herodotus By Ryszard Kapuscinski Knopf, 275 pages, $32 Reviewed by Graeme Voyer IN the mid-1950s, a young Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski, was sent by his newspaper to India. As a going away present, his editor gave him a copy of The Histories by the ancient Greek historian
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Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion's Leap.(Review)
The Review of Metaphysics
; Thompson, Norma. Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion's Leap. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. xiv + 192 pp. Cloth, $25.00--The premise upon which Norma Thompson rests her reading of Herodotus is that man seeks to create community through politics, the theme of which
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The plot unravels: Darius's numbered days in Scythia (Herodotus 4.98).(Critical essay)
Helios
; ... 69: 132-43. Macan, R. W. 1895. Herodotus: The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Books. With Introduction, Notes, Appendices, Indices, Maps. London. Manning, J. G. 2003. Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt: The Structure of Land Tenure. Cambridge. Marincola, J. M. 1987 ...
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Mikalson, Jon D. Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars.(Book Review)
History: Review of New Books
; ... The notes are placed at the end of the text, and there is a bibliography, an index of sources cited, a general index and five maps--including a misleading one labeled Persian Empire that shows nothing east of Babylon. Herodotus and Religion in the Persian ...
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Herodotus and Sima Qian: History and the Anthropological Turn in Ancient Greece and Han China *.
Journal of World History
; This article presents a comparative investigation of Herodotus and Sima Qian with a focus on their ethnographies of nomadic peoples. Both historians included geography and ethnography in their works because their societies had reached a stage when it was no longer possible to write their histories
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Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Language of Barbarians
The Virginia Quarterly Review
; Black Doves Speak: Herodotus and the Language of Barbarians, by Rosario Vignolo Munson. Harvard, July 2005. $14.95 Everybody calls Herodotus "The Father of History," but we could equally well call him the father of anthropology. As background to his history of the Persian War, he sketches the
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In Herodotus, Where Are The Jews?
The New York Jewish Week
; While the Tribe doesn't appear in the 2,500-year-old 'Histories,' released in new translation, the book provides an important context for understanding the Bible. Herodotus, the Greek author credited since Cicero as the "Father of History," is more comfortably described today as an intrepid
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The Tragedy in History: Herodotus and the Deuteronomistic History
Journal of Biblical Literature
; The Tragedy in History: Herodotus and the Deuteronomistic History, by Flemming A. J. Nielsen. JSOTSup 251. Copenhagen International Seminar 4. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997. Pp. 192. $45.00/927.50. The objective of this book is to compare Herodotus's history of ancient Greece and the
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Travels with Herodotus.(Brief article)(Book review)
Geographical
; [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski (translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska) Allen Lane, hb, pp276, 20 [pounds sterling] Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died earlier this year, was Poland's most famous foreign correspondent, imbued with, in the words of Margaret
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Dialogue between cultures for a civilization of love and peace message of his holiness Pope John Paul II for the celebration of the "World Day Of Peace" January 1st, 2001.(Transcript)
International Journal of Humanities and Peace
; INDEX Dialogue Between Cultures #1-3 Mankind and its Different Cultures #4-5 Human Development and being part of a Culture #6-7 Cultural Differences and Mutual Respect #8-9 Dialogue between Cultures #10 Possibilities and Risks of Global Communication #11 The Challenge of Migration #12-13 Respect
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