Status Updates From Herodotus: The History

“‘For slander is the most terrible crime, one in which two people commit the injustice and a third is the victim of it. The one who slanders commits an injustice against the one who is not present, while the person who listens to him does wrong by believing him before learning if his claims are accurate.’” (7.10.η)

Describes the Medes make decision twice (once while drunk once while sober), describes people in the Caucasus as coopualtijg in public (“like animals”) and some weird Cyprus and Babylon tradition of women to be in the temple of Aphrodite.

Talks of a people that are a mix but one thing is different they take their mothers name rather than their fathers name.