{"date":"December 20","id":"12-20","intro":["All phases of life were pictured by Herodotus in his history. Like a modern newspaper reporter, he combines weird stories, scandals, and battle accounts with descriptions of places, persons, and sights about town."],"minutes":26,"readings":[{"author":"Herodotus","end":17,"start":7,"volume":33,"work":"An Account of Egypt"}],"slug":"december-20","status":"proofread","title":"Egypt Visited by the First Reporter","url":"/harvard-classics/december-20/","words":5112}