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8:32 PM

I was wondering what are the (primary or otherwise) sources that we have for political events of ancient Greece of the time before the Persian wars. I was going through the first few pages of Herodotus, and it seemed as though everything I knew about that time period came from Herodotus.

Is this a good question to ask on the main site? Or is this reference request / list? If yes, then can someone clarify here? Thanks!

T.E.D.

9:23 PM

@taninamdar That seems like it ought to be in bounds. I can be a poor judge of topicality on this stack sometimes though.

So this question, its seems an odd coincidence that two people wander in here with the same weird belief that gaining a day when circumnavigating a globe proves something about heliocentrisim.

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My question embraces history, cosmology and astronomy, I hope this is an appropriate forum to ask it, if not I apologise and hope to be re-directed. I have read, but lost the reference, that when the remnant of Magellan's expedition returned in September 1522, their log showed a date one day lat...