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and so much for Herodotus' prejudice,
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but of course as you read his history,
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you will realize that in one sense
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at least the history of Herodotus is a paean
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to the wonders of freedom and the greatness of freedom,
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and the centrality of freedom as the story of the Greeks.
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By the way,he also praises not just freedom,
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eleutheria is the Greek word,
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but in the case of Athens he praises its isegoria.
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That word really means equality of speech.
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He characterizes this new
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Cleisthenic regime not by the word democracy,