Ancient and modern
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1565474,00.html
Tom Holland provides a fascinating insight into Europe's development in
Persian Fire, an account of the empire founded by Cyrus the Great, says
James Buchan
Saturday September 10, 2005
The Guardian
Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West
by Tom Holland
418pp, Little, Brown, =A320
The Persian invasions of mainland Greece in the early fifth century BC
are the beginning of history as we understand that word. Seeking "to
preserve the memory of the past" and also to understand how Greeks and
Asiatics came into conflict, the ancient writer Herodotus deployed a
technique he called historia: knowledge obtained through diligent
inquiry.
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