herodias book. acondas manifesto appears about three times that many but so does plato's republic so all is not lost, just greatly diminished. we clearly no longer live in the civilization were educated men and women are generally familiar with herodias. the question occurs surely the fate of our civilization doesn't depend on familiarity with the nature of book that has no claim to divine inspiration. on the other hand if president obama had paid a reasonable attention to the history is hard to imagine he would have entered into their run nuclear deal in july of 2015. herodotus whatever my attempt at persian -- negotiating the persians is difficult under the best of circumstances and to negotiate from a position of confidence in their goodwill and blind folly. president obama for delay claims to be on the right side of history but he is varying but on the wrong side of our history. the king according to herodotus sought a message for her before attacking the persons in the oracle told him if he att