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Which is a better source of reliable information concerning Salamis ? Herodotus' Histories or Aeschylus' the Persians

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Also, it was written before Herodotus, so it is likely to be more accurate. Herodotus is also very biased against Xerxes and everything he did, and is more likely to include fiction simply to make Xerxes seem worse than he actually is. However, this is no better than Aeschylus because he was writing for a Greek audience, and would change the information to please his audience...
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However, this is no better than Aeschylus because he was writing for a Greek audience, and would change the information to please his audience. (A good example of this is when he describes the death ritual of the Persians involving Olives, which are not native to Persia and are used by Greeks as part of the death ritual) Another reason that The Persians is a good source of information is that Herodotus uses it as a source when writing The Histories (a good example of this is in Aeschylus, he says the Greeks has "1000 ships, 207 of which?", but in Herodotus it is written as 1207, probably after Herodotus misheard the line from which he extracted the information)
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The Technical System: Information, Information Technology, and Information Systems Aeschylus' Oresteia and Prometheus Bound: Hubris and the Chorus The Plot of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon based on Aristotle’s Poetics Aeschylus Book Two of Herodotus, The Histories Comparisons of the Histories of Livy and Tacitus: How significant is it that Croesus is not Greek, in Herodotus' Histories? Which is a better source of reliable information concerning Salamis ? Herodotus' Histories or Aeschylus' the Persians Women in Herodotus’ The Histories A short analysis of Aeschylus' Agamemnon Aeschylus Histories Maladies Information on war histories Is Information On The Net Reliable? Is Information On The Net Reliable?
 

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