The original words are: "God wants to destroy people, he first makes them crazy." -euripides
Later tragic writers were all influenced by Herodotus and fully explained it. Oedipus, an ancient Greek tragic writer, famously said, "If God wants to destroy it, he must first make it crazy."
Later, Shakespeare also said in his work Macbeth: "If God wants to die, he must be promoted as a madman."
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Herodotus was a famous historian in ancient Greece and was called "the father of history" by westerners. Born into a noble family of slave owners, he studied hard since childhood. When he grew up, he traveled to Europe, Africa and Asia and recorded a large number of folk historical stories.
After coming to Athens, where the culture was prosperous, he met many cultural celebrities and heard many legends about the Greek-Persian war. Herodotus devoted himself to the creation of history in his later years, and the idea that "God wants to destroy it, he must first make it crazy" is reflected in the book.
History is also called Persian War History because it describes the Persian War in Greece. It was not divided into volumes at first. Later, the proofreader of Alexandria divided it into nine volumes and named it Muse, so the history book was also called Muse Book.
The history of the book can be divided into two parts: the first part, from the first volume to the fifth volume, section 27, mainly describes the rise of the Persian Empire and the historical background of the Greek-Persian War; Section 28 of the fifth volume is the second part, which focuses on the process of the Greek-Persian war.
Herodotus did not blindly follow legends in his creation, but explained the cause and effect of historical events while recording history, creating a unique way to describe history.
Baidu Encyclopedia: History (works by Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian)