... of grand terms such as 'the cities of mortals'], and the presence of tangential stories that the author considers worth telling, though they are not directly relevant to the plot. This demonstrates Herodotus standing in a murky, grey area between accurate history and the tradition of glorifying the past, from which we might conclude that less attention should to be given ... ...

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