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Herodotus Ancient Greece

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Herodotus
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Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 9 to 11
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	9.45

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		academia, pretext, cryptic, inconclusive, alarming, inkling, onslaught, unsupported, outcome, formidable, city-states, casualty, orator, quash, virtually, unearth
	content words:		Western World, Greco-Persian Wars, Persian Empire, Cyrus II, Roman Republic

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Herodotus By Vickie Chao

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¹     As far as reputation goes, Herodotus had both the most flattering and the most insulting kind.
 
²     On one hand, he was hailed as the Father of History for his pioneering work, Histories (or History). But on the other hand, he was ridiculed as the Father of Lies for basically the same thing.
 
³     Why was there such a disparity?

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