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Herodotus pointed out, as the Athenians did not, that the Spartans would have fought bravely and died nobly. But they would have lost. It was not their own tactical errors that defeated the Persians, but the resolution of Athens. When did Herodotus write the Battle of Thermopylae? Thermopylae (Greek Θερμοπύλαι;Read More →

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Herodotus, (born 484 bce?, Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ? —died c. 430–420), Greek author of the first great narrative history produced in the ancient world, the History of the Greco-Persian Wars. What was the two shortcoming of Herodotus? Herodotus’s chief weakness, however, lies in his often naive analysis of causes, whichRead More →