This essay appears in the Winter 2015 issue of Modern Age. To subscribe now, go here.   Herodotus’s History is ostensibly about the war between the Greeks and the Persians, culminating in the battles at Salamis, Artemisium, and Plataea in 480 and 479 BC. Throughout his narrative, however, Herodotus intends not merely to recount … Continue reading The Overdetermined Universe