09-23-2008, 01:32 AM
page 24 of the Greek Imperialism shows the improtance of Herodotus's history which is really a spin.
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German military expert,18 that, had the host which followed Xerxes to Athens
numbered the 5,283,220 men attributed to it by Herodotus âwithout taking count of women cooks, concubines, eunuchs, beasts of burden, cattle, and Indian dogs,â its rear guard must have been still filing out of Sardis while its van was vainly storming Thermopylae. <b>But what Herodotus reports is what the Athenians believed. They hadmet and routed the might of all Asia. They had mastered in fair fight the conquerors of all other peoples. The world was theirs: it was merely a question of taking possession.</b>
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You see the same kind of spin and hagiography in the Islamist historians and their "Force of history" myth. Shows clearly the lineage of such thinking.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->We know, on the authority of a
German military expert,18 that, had the host which followed Xerxes to Athens
numbered the 5,283,220 men attributed to it by Herodotus âwithout taking count of women cooks, concubines, eunuchs, beasts of burden, cattle, and Indian dogs,â its rear guard must have been still filing out of Sardis while its van was vainly storming Thermopylae. <b>But what Herodotus reports is what the Athenians believed. They hadmet and routed the might of all Asia. They had mastered in fair fight the conquerors of all other peoples. The world was theirs: it was merely a question of taking possession.</b>
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You see the same kind of spin and hagiography in the Islamist historians and their "Force of history" myth. Shows clearly the lineage of such thinking.