Those of us who learned the history of the Persian War in school did not know that the events so vividly described are all based on the writings of the one source who survived-Herodotus.

• 那些在学校里攻读希波战争史的莘莘学子们何曾知道书中描绘得栩栩如生的诸番事件，无一不是根据幸存下来的唯一史料?人称"历史之父"的希洛多德所撰写的著作写成的。