"When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden image of a corpse in a coffin, carved and painted to look as much like the real thing as possible, and anything from 18 inches to 3 foot long; he shows it to each guest in turn, and says: Look upon this body as you drink and enjoy yourself; for you will be just like it when you are dead.[Herodotus —Histories', II 82]"
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Herodotus
About Herodotus
Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian best known for The Histories, his account of the Greco-Persian Wars. His work combines narrative history with ethnographic and geographic inquiry and is often treated as a foundational text of Western historiography.
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