From: RFaussette@aol.com
Date: Sat Nov 30 2002 - 17:44:23 EST
In a message dated 11/30/02 5:35:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,=20
wallyshoes@mindspring.com writes:
> Looks long. What is the best part?=20
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The best part is that Herodotus lived about 100 years after the Babylonian=20
exile and he talks about the Persians, the Greeks and the Egyptians and othe=
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peoples of the time and their wars and their cultures and sometimes their=20
religions and you can put Temple Judaism in its proper perspective. He is=20
eminently readable. Nice gift for the holidays.
In Herodotus=E2=80=99 Histories, we find one Croesus persuading King Cyrus=
to spare=20
the Lydians. Rather than kill them, Croesus suggests that Cyrus, =E2=80=9CSe=
nd a=20
message that they are forbidden to own weapons of war, that they are to wear=
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tunics under their coats and slippers on their feet, they are to take up th=
e=20
cithara and the harp, and that they are to raise their sons to be retailers.=
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Before long, my lord, you will see them become women instead of men, and so=20
there will be no danger of them rising up against you.=E2=80=9D 9 =20
That's cultural conditioning, known even to the ancients.=20
rich
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