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Herodotus's Statistics: Quantitative Commentary

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Vassilios C. Hombas
Vassilios C. Hombas
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Economics, Athens University, 8 Pesmazoglou Str., Athens, Greece105 59; mailing: Athens College, P.O. Box 65005, GR 154 10 Psychico, Athens, Greece.
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The ancient Greeks were admired for many things, but particularly for their lack of the corrosive, self-centered complex that leads many authors today to believe that everything started with, and everything originated in, Greece. The ancient Greeks were self-confident enough to accept that they had been influenced by and had absorbed many foreign elements, which their talent then transformed into a new expression of civilization. At a somewhat less mundane level, many ideas that have shaped our thoughts and continue to influence our thinking today, across the world, originated in the past. They were also debated from different points of view in Athens and in other areas in Greece.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , June 2005 , pp. 179 - 205
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Copyright © The History of Economics Society 2005

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