Herodotus
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- Created on: 05-06-20 14:15
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- Herodotus
- Born in a town called Halicarnassus
- He seemed to be a globetrotter
- Babylon
- Crimea
- South along the Nile
- Sicily
- He seemed to be a globetrotter
- Year of his death is unknown
- But assumed it was between 429-413
- Making it reasonable to infer that he was born around 500-470
- But assumed it was between 429-413
- Possibly from a rich family / member of old aristocracy
- He could write
- He possibly fought as a hoplite as all his descriptions of the battles are from a soldiers P.O.V
- Father of History
- Called this by Cicero
- The Histories:
- Wrote by Herodotus
- Split into 9 'books'
- Sometimes qouted Homer
- He echos Homer in the way he treats the Persians and the Greeks- with impartiality and genuine sympathy for both parties
- He invented a new literary genre: histroy. By intergrating the results of empiricist ethnohraphic and topographic research into epic, and writing in prose.
- Father of Lies
- Thucydides rejected Herodotus' religious explanation of what was happening
- Thucydides first to criticize
- Most regarded him as an excellent teller of tales
- He does not relie on divine sources for his narrative but concluded that this is his work and no one elses.
- Born in a town called Halicarnassus
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