Herodotus
193Cyrus, King of Persia
20 May 2024
40:21¶ 126
“We give him a hard time, and rightly so. He’s called the father of history by humanists who don’t consider scripture to be history,…”
40:57¶ 127
“Most modern historians seem to just discount them with the wave of a hand, after insisting he’s the father of history. What they’re really…”
41:36¶ 129
“Herodotus assumes it’s completely true, but then Herodotus is written off because of so many other places he’s gone after urban legends or historical…”
192The Medo-Persian Empire
14 May 2024
2:01¶ 6
“This is one of the places where secular history and sacred history begin to intertwine or at least look each other in the eye…”
3:10¶ 10
“That’s a great line. I was skimming internet articles and I kept running across the idea that Herodotus is setting forth this conflict between…”
2:31¶ 8
“There’s a line in Herodotus that says, “From the beginning the Greeks have been more free from foolishness than other people.” Then you read…”
159The Restoration Era
20 Mar 2023
15:08¶ 50
“Herodotus, by and large, is fairly easy reading in a good translation, and he starts with the conflict between what for him is east…”
15:27¶ 51
“He takes it back to the Trojan War and says, “It all started when both sides started stealing women back and forth, and then…”
14:28¶ 49
“What I would like to do now is just kind of talk through the history as history. The Restoration era then begins with a…”