Word: herodotus
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...their coarse, nimble ponies, they rode like centaurs. They made cloaks from tanned scalps, and the skin of a right arm would furnish a container for their arrows. ("The skin of a man," noted Herodotus, who could seldom resist a piquant detail, "is thick and glossy, and whiter than almost all other hides.") To relax, they got uproariously drunk on thick wine from the Black Sea area, which they quaffed from the leather-bound skulls of their foes, or they would dump marijuana seeds on red-hot stones and breathe the smoke. Fortunately for archaeology, they buried their dead kings...
...Minoans, the two friendly cities had apparently summoned naval help against a rival city. If Marinatos is correct, the frieze extends by at least a thousand years the known history of Libya; until now scholars have thought that the earliest reference to Libya was in the chronicles of Herodotus, written about 450 B.C. The frieze also strongly suggests that Thera prospered through trade and occasionally conquest. For these reasons, Marinatos is convinced that the frieze is "the most valuable historical document that we have obtained so far from the Bronze...
...pile and called it Greece. For centuries this poverty-plagued country has been the poor stepchild of one foreign power after another, rarely able to pay its bills or manage its economic destiny without the aid of wealthier neighbors. All that is changing now, as the progeny of Herodotus and Homer ride high on one of Europe's least expected booms. Per capita income has climbed to $ 1,200 a year, spurred by an economic growth rate of 10.5% last year that left the rest of Europe far behind. In the past five years the number of autos...
...Scythians left behind no written record when they finally vanished from the steppes in the 2nd century B.C., victims of intermarriage and conquest. But there was no end of legends about their ferocity in battle and their great troves of gold. The Greek historian Herodotus devoted more than half a volume to them. Still, it was not until the 19th century, when archaeologists began serious studies of the puzzling remains found scattered from the borders of China to the banks of the Dniester, that scholars would admit there might be more than a shard of truth to the old Scythian...
...discovery of the royal tomb, which contains the skeletons of a prince, a princess and an infant-as well as other recent digs in the U.S.S.R.-gives the old stories the ring of historical fact. Herodotus tells, for instance, how the Scythians beheaded their fallen enemies and brought the skulls back to camp to use as wine goblets. Archaeologist Renate Rolle, a young West German woman and the first Western scientist allowed to participate in a Soviet dig since 1920, reports that there is new evidence of Scythian ferociousness. Lances and bows and arrows found in graves along with female...