The way of Herodotus : travels with the man who invented history / Justin Marozzi.

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Main Author: Marozzi, Justin, 1970-
Language:English
Published: [Cambridge, Mass.] : Da Capo Press, 2008.
Edition:First Da Capo Press edition.
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Physical Description:xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Introduction: Dog-headed men, gold-digging ants and flying snakes, or, Why we should all read Herodotus -- Turkey. Priestesses with beards ; Underwater Herodotus -- Iraq. Fools and wars ; Baghdad, evangelicals and mocking madmen ; Babylon -- Egypt. Memphis and Thebes : tall stories and self-immolating cats, or, No sex in temples, please, we're Egyptian ; Herodotus in Hollywood (and the Sahara) ; Cairo, mother of the world -- Greece. Athens, city hall of wisdom ; Herodotus meets Aristotle ; Thessaloniki : history on the front line ; An exorcism ; Lunch (and a good deal of Retsina) with Patrick Leigh Fermor ; 'Fill high the bowl with Samian wine!' ; Wassailing gods, pious preists and tearful monks. 
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