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John Derbyshire on NRO
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"Three Historians
A
few favs.
Mr.
Derbyshire is also an NR contributing editor
March 6, 2002 8:40 a.m.
(1) Herodotus.
Last week my colleague Vic Hanson posted a story from the ancient Greek
historian Herodotus on this site, to illustrate a truth about our current
president. This has prompted me to chip in with some Herodotus of my own.
You know how it is when several fans of the same TV comedy are gathered
together: The mention by one person of his favorite scene induces
an irresistible urge in everyone else present to chime in with theirs .
Well, I am in the grip of that compulsion. All Herodotus lovers have their
favorite passage in the History , and here is mine.
It's from book 7
of the History , sections 134-5. I had better say that this is not
a very original selection. I have seen it extracted by other authors —
it is in Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism somewhere, for example.
It is, however, very well worth repeating, and I make no apology for being
the umpteenth person to direct his readers' attention to it. I'm going
to quote from one of the quirkier translations, done by the eccentric
English classicist and politician Enoch Powell. Powell translated the
whole thing into Biblical English, to give the right (as he saw it) flavor
of archaism. You either like that kind of thing or you don't, and I just
do.
The story needs a
bit of background. During the first quarter of the fifth century B.C.,
the new empire of Persia was expanding aggressively under two great kings:
Darius, up to 486, and then Xerxes. They wanted to conquer the young Greek
city-states, and sent expeditionary for"
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