SYMHC Classics: Croesus

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Holly and Tracy discuss the story of Croesus and how disabilities are represented in the writing of Herodotus. The topic then turns to the Igbo women's practice called sitting on a man, and how the Western world often misunderstands other cultures.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class,
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0:36.5	Hello and a happy casual Friday, I'm Holly Fry.
0:46.0	I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
0:47.8	So this week we talked about Cresus.
0:50.0	Yep.
0:50.7	Oh, Cresus bless your heart.
0:52.5	The one thing that I mentioned in the episode that I was kind of saving for this
0:55.9	was the discussion of Cresus' son who had a very mild disability,
1:00.9	which also has kind of a happy ending.
1:04.5	We talk about how in the writings of Herodotus,
1:07.2	Cresus basically says, like, this kid doesn't even exist to me.
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