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...Greek historian Herodotus maintains that Greek heroes whom he called the Sons of Herakles seized Sardis in the 12th century B.C. The evidence found on this expedition was the first definitely to corroborate this...
Ever since travelers started traveling, they have been telling others how and where to do it. Herodotus in 450 B.C. described the wonders of the Nile, where the natives worshiped crocodiles and shaved off their eyebrows when their cats died. Mark Twain, who made the Grand Tour a century ago, wrote delightedly of the cheapness of Moroccan currency ("I bought nearly half a pint of their money for a shilling"). The package tour, credit cards and 21-day-excursion jet fares have made the wonders of the Nile less wondrous and even Moroccan currency a lot less cheap...
...ever going to college, then became a Birmingham police-court judge and a crack negligence lawyer. In 1926, his Populist fervor persuaded Alabamians to elect him to the U.S. Senate. Aware of his spotty schooling, he spent his first term buried in the Library of Congress reading Aquinas, Aristotle, Herodotus, Locke, Marx, Mill, Montesquieu, Plutarch, Tacitus, Spinoza, Thucydides, Shakespeare, the records of the Constitutional Convention, and all of Thomas Jefferson...
...Corrupted into "Cheops" 2,400 year ago by the Greek historian Herodotus...
...Call me Herodotus," cries Virtue Smith, the narrator of this nobly titled novel, This Company of Men. Something noble certainly should be in the bulky text. All, however, is irony, and "Herodotus" is actually dealing with "the civilization of the Corporation Man . . . the creature struggling in a snowstorm of trivia...