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Tonight we head back into history with an account of Egypt by Herodotus translated by George Campbell Macaulay in 1890.

Let's begin.

Note. Herototus was born at Hallecarnassus on the southwest coast of Asia Minor in the early part of the 5th century BC. Of his life we know almost

nothing except that he spent much of it traveling to collect the material for his writings, and that he

finally settled down at Thuriai in southern Italy, where his great work was composed. He died in 424 BC. The subject of the history of

Herodotus is the struggle between the Greeks and the barbarians, which he brings down to the

Battle of Mikale in 479 BC. The work as we have it is divided into nine books, named after the nine muses, but this division is probably due to the Alexandrine grammarians.

His information he gathered mainly from oral sources as he travelled through Asia Minor

down into Egypt, round the Black Sea, and into various parts of Greece

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