Anyway, you’re welcome; thanks for the kind words! Other than bad taste in film, how is the symposium going?
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Thanks!
]]>Herodotus was from Halicarnassus, an Ionian colony in western Anatolia, which was located roughly where modern Bodrum is in the far southwestern part of the modern-day Republic of Turkey. He was born around 484 BCE, and so was a child in Halicarnassus when Xerxes led the invasion of Hellas; later his family moved to Samos. As such he, like all the other Dorians and Ionians in western Anatolia, was a subject of the Persian Shah at the time of the invasion, and, at least according to Herodotus’s own account, Ionian forces from Halicarnassus (e.g. the naval contingent led by Artemisia) were prominent among the Imperial forces invading Hellas. Herodotus later moved to Periclean-era Athens, which seems to be where he first published his Histories.
You will no doubt point out that there was no such country as Turkey in ca. 484-ca. 425 BCE, and you’d be right about that. On the other hand, I’d point out that, at the time, there also was no such country as Greece.
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