The goal Herodotus claimed for himself in the opening sentence of the Histories, to prevent the deeds of humankind from losing their color with the passage of time, is the goal of a man who saw the world of the past slipping away, along with the generation who had shaped it. He himself had grown up in a different world but he had learned to revere that of his father. Without doubt he knew it could not be brought back, but he also ensured it would not be forgotten.
-James Romm. Herodotus. (202)
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