Travels with Herodotus

Published by John Kaminski: Thursday, 15 August 2019 22:20 
 

A fearless forecast for the world from 425 BC

BEWARE ‘PERIPATETIC MERCHANTS’

It’s easier to fool a crowd
than a single person.
—Herodotus

The game is the same — 25 centuries ago, human dynamics were eerily similar to the way we act now, same influences, the same hazards of health and welfare. All our existing belief systems derive from this period.

Known as “The Father of History”, Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484-425 BC) bequeathed to us a detailed verbal photograph of when Greece and Persia were the major powers in the known world, and Egypt, after existing for many thousands of years, was going into eclipse. The philosophies developed during this era provide the bases of our thought processes today.

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