Reading Histories of Herodotus | Alexandria
Read Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus. Revealing how an ancient Greek travel writer pioneered moral relativism, Herodotus's epic chronicles showed that "barbarian" cultures often had wiser customs than Greeks - a radical challenge to ethnocentrism that still stings today. His revolutionary insight? The societies we dismiss as primitive may grasp truths we've forgotten.