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Summer 2014

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Classical World

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Herodotus portrays both Croesus and Xerxes as resolutely unaware of their own mortality, despite conversations about the life span of an ordinary human (Croesus), and the mortality of his massive army (Xerxes). Part of what makes Croesus and Xerxes hubristic, for Herodotus, is their obliviousness to this salient aspect of their humanity.

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This work is freely available courtesy of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States and Johns Hopkins University Press.

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