Word: herodotus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Extraordinary Book. Dr. Glueck is quick to insist that for all his accomplishment, his work touches only one aspect of archaeology's many-sided search for man's past. Until rather recently, history began with Herodotus, who wrote in Greece about 450 B.C. But great civilizations rose and fell long before the Greeks, and were forgotten except for legend...
...mound of King Alyattes (c. 600 B.C.), father of Croesus, was the scene of other underground explorations by members of the expedition. Measuring two thirds of a mile in circumference, this huge pile was compared by the Greek historian Herodotus to the pyramids of Egypt...
Secret Stairs. The classical clues that Papadimitriou had to go on were as intriguing as they were vague. The historian Herodotus mentioned a temple of Artemis that flourished at Vravron. Aristophanes hinted at strange orgies. The rest was a tantalizing mixture of myths and the real civilization of the time. Euripides, in plays, described how Artemis rescued Iphigenia from being sacrificed by her father Agamemnon, and how later, at the behest of Athena, Iphigenia became Artemis' priestess at Vravron. She dwelt near some "holy stairs." and when she died, her grave was adorned "with braided gowns of softest weave...
...Scythians were nomads who left traces of themselves all the way from the borders of modern China to the banks of the Danube. Though they possessed neither writing nor coinage, they caught the fancy of the higher civilizations that they came in touch with. To the Scythians, Herodotus devoted a volume so filled with tales of fabulous treasure that for cen turies historians suspected that the old master had made the whole book up. When archaeologists, 150 years ago, began exploring the tombs that bandits had discovered, Herodotus was vindicated...