Herodotian Update

Chad kindly informed me that his name is herOdotus, not HERoDOtus. I had sort of wondered and had been alternating pronunciations. Good to know, I guess. :P

I read about an Egyptian guy who had a cow-shaped tomb built for his young daughter who died. ONce a year, the cow tomb was brought outside so that her bones could see the sun. (!)

For those of you who think you go through a lot of shoes: "The former of these cities, which is a place of note, is assigned expressly to the wife of the ruler of Egypt for the time being, to keep her in shoes."

Herodotus makes me laugh, because he's always making these statements such as "he, for his part, does not credit this," "the Greeks think this, but that is ridiculous." Usually he follows that sort of statement with a report of one of his exciting new discoveries (that the sun is what pulls the Nile out of its banks) or an important historical fact about the Oracle at Delphi.

I've also learned a lot about embalming.