Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints) mentioned The Histories by Herodotus 2 times

they didn't meaningfully choose seems, well... The Greek historian Herodotus tells a story about the Persian King Xerxes ordering the sea to be whipped with 300 lashes after a storm destroyed his bridge. Which seems irrational, right? To punish a force of nature. Leave my beautiful wet wife alone!

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)

It's like an origin myth. In an article titled, "There is no such thing as Western civilization," the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah points out that for the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, there was no such thing as "the West." The world was divided into three continents he called Europe, Asia, and Libya. Herodotus had no notion that these three continents corresponded to different types of people, and he never referred to any group of people called "European."

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)