Herodotus: The Birth of History (TRIH ep 330)
450 BCE · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss Herodotus — his life, methods and enduring appeal — drawing on Tom Holland's Penguin translation and his children's book The Wolf Girl, The Greeks and The Gods. They situate Herodotus in fifth-century BC Halicarnassus, emphasize his cosmopolitan perspective on the Persian Empire and his role as the first major prose historian, travel writer and ethnographer. The episode examines Herodotus' method of recording oral testimony, his famous digressio...
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Around 450 BCE
- Ramayana (500 BCE)
- Persian invasions of Greece (499 BCE)
- Mahabharata (400 BCE)
- Achaemenid Persian Empire (550 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Roman Republic founded (509 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)