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"Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest."

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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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