The Cleobis and Biton passage, like the Tellos passage, encapsulates the archaic Greek values of familial piety and of death over life. This passage, however, is somewhat more revolutionary than […]
Category Archives: Herodotus
Histories 1.30-1.32: Solon at the Court of Croesus Part 1 – the story of Tellos
This passage is incredibly iconic and embodies as much as it reinforces many conceits in the Greek and consequently the Western imagination: this is the archetypal dialogue between simplicity and […]
Herodotus 6.126-9 (contributed by Tom Holland)
This is a passage I loved even before I read it. My first classics teacher combined a love of Herodotus with a genius for drawing on blackboards. I vividly remember […]