Dr. Owen Rees

Absolutely that. So this is why I was sort of throwing around some of the names. We've also got like the Sarmatians, the Saramatians. These are names you might come across, especially in Roman history.

And then you've got the other sort of nomadic groups that come after them, the Alans and things like that. Sometimes they're still called Scythian, sometimes they're not. Scythian is, like you said, it's an overarching name they give to talk about a collective concept. Often when they want to be specific, they start talking specific names. So they start using these specific titles.

And then you've got the other sort of nomadic groups that come after them, the Alans and things like that. Sometimes they're still called Scythian, sometimes they're not. Scythian is, like you said, it's an overarching name they give to talk about a collective concept. Often when they want to be specific, they start talking specific names. So they start using these specific titles.

And then you've got the other sort of nomadic groups that come after them, the Alans and things like that. Sometimes they're still called Scythian, sometimes they're not. Scythian is, like you said, it's an overarching name they give to talk about a collective concept. Often when they want to be specific, they start talking specific names. So they start using these specific titles.

Herodotus does this. He talks about Scythia and he talks about the Scythians and then breaks them down group by group by name. So even he acknowledges they're the same, but they're not.

Herodotus does this. He talks about Scythia and he talks about the Scythians and then breaks them down group by group by name. So even he acknowledges they're the same, but they're not.

Herodotus does this. He talks about Scythia and he talks about the Scythians and then breaks them down group by group by name. So even he acknowledges they're the same, but they're not.

So Herodotus is often considered the father of history. Cicero, the Roman writer, famously called him the father of history. He is the first in the lineage of what we would consider the writing of history. So what I mean by that is not the recording of events of the past. That's chronicling. And that's been going on since Egypt and before. So there's a long heritage and history of that.

So Herodotus is often considered the father of history. Cicero, the Roman writer, famously called him the father of history. He is the first in the lineage of what we would consider the writing of history. So what I mean by that is not the recording of events of the past. That's chronicling. And that's been going on since Egypt and before. So there's a long heritage and history of that.

So Herodotus is often considered the father of history. Cicero, the Roman writer, famously called him the father of history. He is the first in the lineage of what we would consider the writing of history. So what I mean by that is not the recording of events of the past. That's chronicling. And that's been going on since Egypt and before. So there's a long heritage and history of that.

But history itself is supposed to be an inquiry. You're supposed to be asking questions, trying to answer a question. rather than just recording facts and recording information and recording events for whatever reason. This is what Herodotus was trying to do. So Herodotus was exploring the causes and the outcome of the Persian Wars.

But history itself is supposed to be an inquiry. You're supposed to be asking questions, trying to answer a question. rather than just recording facts and recording information and recording events for whatever reason. This is what Herodotus was trying to do. So Herodotus was exploring the causes and the outcome of the Persian Wars.

But history itself is supposed to be an inquiry. You're supposed to be asking questions, trying to answer a question. rather than just recording facts and recording information and recording events for whatever reason. This is what Herodotus was trying to do. So Herodotus was exploring the causes and the outcome of the Persian Wars.

So that was the great Persian Empire in conflict with the tiny poleis of Greece and the various poleis of Greece and basically why the Greeks won, why this conflict even occurred and things like that. So he's interested in all that.

So that was the great Persian Empire in conflict with the tiny poleis of Greece and the various poleis of Greece and basically why the Greeks won, why this conflict even occurred and things like that. So he's interested in all that.

So that was the great Persian Empire in conflict with the tiny poleis of Greece and the various poleis of Greece and basically why the Greeks won, why this conflict even occurred and things like that. So he's interested in all that.

What I love about Herodotus and the purity of what Herodotus was trying to do was he wanted to understand all the cultures involved in this, to his mind, global conflict. So Persia was a big empire that included lots of different areas of the world within it, a lot of cultures within it. So Herodotus explored those. One of those groups was the Scythians.

What I love about Herodotus and the purity of what Herodotus was trying to do was he wanted to understand all the cultures involved in this, to his mind, global conflict. So Persia was a big empire that included lots of different areas of the world within it, a lot of cultures within it. So Herodotus explored those. One of those groups was the Scythians.

What I love about Herodotus and the purity of what Herodotus was trying to do was he wanted to understand all the cultures involved in this, to his mind, global conflict. So Persia was a big empire that included lots of different areas of the world within it, a lot of cultures within it. So Herodotus explored those. One of those groups was the Scythians.

So he has an entire section of his histories dedicated to Scythia, the land of Scythia, and the peoples within it. He's not only a historian, as you and I think of it, he's also a bit of an ethnographer. He's fascinated by culture. And he's also somewhat of a geographer. So he's also interested not just in the Scythians, not just Scythian land, but also his concept of a world map.