Paul Cartledge
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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On the other hand, his city, under the terms of the Delian League, joined the Delian League.
And he personally, Herodotus, decided that his life's project was to explain why Greeks and non-Greeks, barbarians they called them, had fought each other.
And he wanted both to celebrate and to explain Persia.
what was going on.
Some people think that he wrote his entire history with an arrière-pensée, so behind what he's writing about ostensibly, which ends in 479, actually what he's got in mind is the rise of the Athenians, and as Leah says, I agree with Leah, that the Athenians very soon adopted an imperial posture, and so therefore Herodotus also.
is indirectly a historian of the rise of the Athenian Empire.
Well, this is one thing that's not been mentioned yet, that another part of Athens' propaganda, which is actually wholly in principle admirable, is liberation.
Well, his subject is the war, which broke out in 431.
But we call it the war.
Peloponnesian War, typically, because we see it from the Athenian point of view.
If I was a Spartan writing the history of that war, it would be the Athenian War.
And, of course, this is Thucydides.
He wanted to be both Herodotus and Homer at once.
So my war is bigger than your war.
And, in fact, it's bigger even than Homer's war.
Now, Homer's war lasted 10 years.
My war, this is Thucydides, lasted 27.
So beat that.
Does he describe the history of the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War?
Rather briefly, and just sort of like a butterfly, he hops from one episode to another.
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