The Way of Herodotus Quotes

“Herodotus of Halicarnassus here displays his inquiry, so that human achievements may not become forgotten in time, and great and marvellous deeds - some displayed by Greeks, some by barbarians - may not be without their glory; and especially to show why the two peoples fought each other. There it is. The birth of history in a paragraph.”
― Justin Marozzi, The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde, ‘The Critic as Artist’, Intentions (1891)”
― Justin Marozzi, The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History

“The appeal of history to us all is in the last analysis poetic.”
― Justin Marozzi, The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History