Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński

Author:Ryszard Kapuściński [Kapuściński, Ryszard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Travel, Polish Literature, Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780307548238
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2007-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

The historic role of a hare? Scholars agree that it was the Scythians who stopped Darius’s march on Europe. If this hadn’t happened, the fate of the world might have been quite otherwise. And what decided Darius’s final retreat was that the Scythians, lightheartedly pursuing a hare in plain view of the Persian army, demonstrated that they were ignoring it, thumbing their nose at it, holding it in contempt. And this disdain, this humiliation, was a more dreadful blow for the king of the Persians than losing a great battle.

Night falls.

Darius orders the campfires lit, as is customary at this time of day. The soldiers who no longer have the strength to march—the camp hangers-on, the vagabonds, the sick—are to remain by the fires. He commands that the donkeys be tethered, so that they will bray, creating the impression that life as usual continues in the Persian camp. And he himself, at the head of his army, begins the retreat under the cover of darkness.

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