<a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1182245/open_sms">Send us a text</a>Around 431 BCE, Herodotus of Halicarnassus wrote up his Inquiry—in Greek, Historia—in which he sought to explain the origins and course of the conflicts between the Persians and the Greeks. This work inaugurated the western historical tradition and earned for its author the title Father of History. We’ll examine who Herodotus was, how he came to write his History, and why it is the indispensable source for the Persian Wars and the Battle of Thermopylae.

Send us a text Around 431 BCE, Herodotus of Halicarnassus wrote up his Inquiry—in Greek, Historia—in which he sought to explain the origins and course of the conflicts between the Persians and the Greeks. This work inaugurated the western historical tradition and earned for its author the title Father of History. We’ll examine who Herodotus was, how he came to write his History, and why it is the indispensable source for the Persian Wars and the Battle of Thermopylae.

<a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1182245/open_sms" rel="noopener noreferrer">Send us a text</a>Around 431 BCE, Herodotus of Halicarnassus wrote up his Inquiry—in Greek, Historia—in which he sought to explain the origins and course of the conflicts between the Persians and the Greeks. This work inaugurated the western historical tradition and earned for its author the title Father of History. We’ll examine who Herodotus was, how he came to write his History, and why it is the indispensable source for the Persian Wars and the Battle of Thermopylae. &nbsp;

Thermopylae, Part 2-Herodotus and His History

Welcome to Great Battles in History. This podcast explores some of the most famous and most important battles in world history from ancient times to the Second World War. Each episode dives deeply into a single battle, investigating its origins, the course of combat, and the outcomes. We will examine the contending forces, including some of history’s most celebrated armies, navies, and air forces. We will meet great captains like Hannibal Barca, Saladin, Napoleon, and Chester Nimitz. We will also delve into the experiences of the soldier at the sharp end: the Spartan hoplite at Thermopylae, the English longbowman at Agincourt, the mounted samurai at Nagashino, the Soviet tanker at Kursk. Battles are regarded as events that change the course of history; the most important have been described as decisive. We will come to question this idea, for, as we’ll see, while a handful of battles do qualify as momentous, epochal turning points, most others—including not a few widely considered decisive—changed very little if anything at all. Finally, battles are more than just exercises of pure strategy and tactics; they are artifacts— creations of the political, social, economic and cultural forces of their times. To investigate great battles is to open up history in its widest sense.

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