If you would understand our current political season. From Herodotus almost 500 years before Christ. Still true today.
Herodotus -
Sometime around the year 425 B.C., the writer and geographer Herodotus published his magnum opus: a long account of the Greco-Persian Wars that he called The Histories. ... Herodotus was born in about 485 B.C. in the Greek city of Halicarnassus. He was a contemporary of Socrates.