Herodotus

Herodotus

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Herodotus episodes

  • Herodotus: The Sacred Animals of Ancient Egypt
    Herodotus tells us that ancient Egyptians worshiped cows and bulls. How and why did they do that? Bertie investigates...
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    8 min
  • Gods of Ancient Egypt
    Herodotus often wrote about the Egyptian gods under Greek names. He thought the Egyptian gods were more or less the same as the Greek ones. Was he right?
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    10 min
  • Herodotus - The River Nile
    Herodotus visited Egypt and devoted the Second Book of his Histories to its wonders. He called Egypt the "Gift of the Nile" and looked at varios theories about where its true source was, and why it flooded its banks every year.
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    10 min
  • Ancient Babylon
    The largest and most splendid city in the ancient world was captured by King Cyrus of Persia in 539 BC. The story is entwined with the history of the Jews in the Bible who were exiled to the rivers of Babylon.
    10 min
  • The Cretan Bull
    Bertie is on the Greek Island of Crete and relates two famous legends from the time of King Minos - and how they blend into History in the writing of Herodotus.
    10 min
  • The World’s Oldest Religion
    Zoroastrianism is the ancient religion of the Persians and it is still practiced to this day. It has influenced many of our own beliefs, even if we don't realise it ! We continue our retelling of the histories of Herodotus from Ancient Greece.
    9 min
  • Young Cyrus
    A poor young Persian boy is a natural leader. In a game, his friends choose him to play their king. He gets into trouble when he orders the son of an aristocrat to be punished.
    12 min
  • The Son of Croesus
    Herodotus 7. The anger of the gods is coming for Croesus, after he boasted of being the richest and happiest person in the world.
    11 min

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Ancient history presented in a family-friendly way by Bertie of Storynory. Amazing tales from ancient Greece, Lydia, Persia, Egypt and beyond are explained and brought to life. The Greek writer,…