I focused on 3 in depth, 3 in general.
Edit: just thought you EXT history students might enjoy this podcast on Herodotus
27 October
HERODOTUS AND THE DISCOVERY OF HISTORY
Dr Julia Kindt, Classics and Ancient History, Faculty of Arts
Towards the end of the fifth century BC Herodotus wrote his Histories, a work in which he sought to explain why the Greeks had won the Persian Wars. The Histories are widely credited for pioneering the Western tradition of historiography – already Cicero called Herodotus “the father of history”. But what is original about Herodotus’ Histories is not so much what he wrote about – after all Homer had already focused his narrative on a great war – but how he wrote about it. Herodotus blended history and literature, political, cultural, and military history, ethnography, geography, zoology, linguistics and religion (to name just a few interests of this highly versatile author) in a unique and sophisticated fashion. In bringing these different strands of knowledge together Herodotus’ Histories reflect the cultural and intellectual milieu of ancient Greece during the late fifth century BC when different areas of human life became subject to critical inquiry.
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(Running time 57 min, 26.3Mb MP3)
I've had a listen to it and I think it might be helpful. Julia is an expert in her field so yeh