Sing, Herodotus, of Men and Their Deeds
Herodotus honored mankind in the greatest way he knew how: by giving to them the place of his gods, the Muses, and by treating their memories like the memories of the gods. Herodotus begins his Histories with a two-sentence proemial (an introduction or preface) that reads: Herodotus of Halicarnassus here presents his research so that [...]