# The inquiry compares marriage, burial, and diet across peoples as a check on any one city's common sense

Date: 435

## The fact

Across logoi, as later transmitted, the Histories set marriage, burial, diet, and war-custom next to each other so that no single city's habit looks like nature. The instrument is that comparative practice. It is one inquiry's method, not a 19th-century department of anthropology. Herodotus's documented role is: He compares. Comparison can also type people; that harm sits on the Egyptian-types row. This stores the comparative check.

## Context

Nomos-as-king is the named slogan-neighbour. Egyptian types remain the harm-neighbour. Sharing the comparisons with unnamed informants is required. Later colonial textbooks that mined the types are lag, not 435 autograph. The setting of The inquiry compares marriage, burial, and diet across peoples as a check on any one city's common sense is the public file around -0435-06-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [social-cohesion](/drivers/social-cohesion) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories comparative ethnography (later carrier) at https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126 (Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent locator: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Herodotus at https://iep.utm.edu/herodotus/ (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Official carrier: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories comparative ethnography (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts). Independent carrier: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Herodotus (https://iep.utm.edu/herodotus/; Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

Official or archival record: Perseus — Herodotus, Histories comparative ethnography (later carrier) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

Improving path from The inquiry compares marriage, burial, and diet across peoples as a check on any one city's common sense on -0435-06-01. Public comparison of customs is a cohesion path when it undermines a unique naturalness claim. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin with 3.38 nomos as a second identical heading. Nomos-king is the slogan; this is the practice across logoi. Mixed effects of The inquiry compares marriage, burial, and diet across peoples as a check on any one city's common sense are separate paths.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of The inquiry compares marriage, burial, and diet across peoples as a check on any one city's common sense under -0435-06-01 for Herodotus. Established: a sourced public record of The inquiry compares marriage, burial, and diet across peoples as a check on any one city's common sense under -0435-06-01.

Shared responsibility is part of The inquiry compares marriage, burial, and diet across peoples as a check on any one city's common sense. Naming Herodotus does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from -0435-06-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

The attached driver is social-cohesion. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Herodotus: https://factrail.ai/people/herodotus

## Drivers

- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://iep.utm.edu/herodotus/
- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0126

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/he-custom-comparison