"You kneel in worship to no human being as master but to the gods alone"
Proskynesis and freedom in Herodotus and Xenophon
The depiction of proskynesis as a social practice [by the Persians] is important, as Greek authors (and Herodotus, too) tend to show it only in relation to the King. The Greek aversion to this practice, which they associated with the worship of gods (and it was not common even in that practice), is already visible [in Herodotus].
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