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Hello. In 2013, author and translator Tom Holland wrote, quote,

Herodotus is the most entertaining of historians.

Indeed, he is as entertaining as anyone who has ever written, historian or not.

His great work is many things, the first example of non-fiction, the text that underlies the

entire discipline of history, the most important source of information we have

for a vital episode in human affairs, but it is, above all, a treasure trove. The father of history he may be, but he is also much more than that."

But who was this person Herodotus? What do we know about him in his life? What was his project? And did he

succeed? And is he worth reading today? Mike Pallandrome joins us to make the case for Herodotus today on the history of literature. Okay, here we go. Hello everyone, how are you? It's Thanksgiving Week.

Here at the history of literature, which means we are feeling good, feeling festive, feeling

thankful even though this is a year where we in the United States

celebrating our Thanksgiving have less community than usual due to the pandemic.

Perhaps that has made me thank you. than usual due to the pandemic.

Perhaps that has made me thankful for you, dear listeners, even more than usual.

Speaking of dear listeners, we'll have some listener email today, at least one. we have a good one lined up as

usual the listener email it's listener emails we get are simply extraordinary

the highlight of my days people. The

highlight of my days. That and actually doing the show at least the recording of

it. I still like talking. Other parts of it are a little more of a drag,

but I like thinking and talking and hearing from you,

where you are, what you're reading, what you've read,

how it all resonated with you. To me, that is the history of literature,

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