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Authoritarian rulers aren’t new – here’s what Herodotus, an early Greek historian, wrote about them

  • Written by Debbie Felton, Professor of Classics, UMass Amherst
Authoritarian rulers aren’t new – here’s what Herodotus, an early Greek historian, wrote about themDarius I of Persia, center, and his court, from a vase painted between 340 and 320 B.C.E., on display at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.Carlo Raso/ Flickr, CC BY-SA

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