Pre-modern historiography lecture
... According to Collingwood, Herodotus begins by asking questions, whereas the writer of myths already knows the answers. ...
... According to Collingwood, Herodotus begins by asking questions, whereas the writer of myths already knows the answers. ...
Who Wants to Pass an SOL Exam
... Claiming to be the sun god’s equal, Amenhotep changed his name to: A. Ramses II B. Ramses III C. Hatshepsut ...
... Claiming to be the sun god’s equal, Amenhotep changed his name to: A. Ramses II B. Ramses III C. Hatshepsut ...
Important Greeks
... Herodotus was born 484 B.C., perhaps a few years earlier in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor . His death and birth dates are not precise. He was often known as the “father of history.” Herodotus was the first historian. His family was wealthy and perhaps aristocratic, while still young his family was drive ...
... Herodotus was born 484 B.C., perhaps a few years earlier in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor . His death and birth dates are not precise. He was often known as the “father of history.” Herodotus was the first historian. His family was wealthy and perhaps aristocratic, while still young his family was drive ...
Herodotus and the Politics of ethnos
... Wars and the descriptions of the various peoples in the Persian Empire and the Greek world. While some scholars have gone so far as to argue that these two Herodotean lines of inquiry were written separately and then seamed together, a look at the political dimensions of ethnicity within the Histori ...
... Wars and the descriptions of the various peoples in the Persian Empire and the Greek world. While some scholars have gone so far as to argue that these two Herodotean lines of inquiry were written separately and then seamed together, a look at the political dimensions of ethnicity within the Histori ...
Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis
... The Presocratics: Thales of Miletus and the eclipse Hecataeus of Miletus and his map of the world Herodotus and the invention of history Herodotus’s method: comparing stories, interviewing priests The origins of the conflict between Europe and Asia Croesus and the oracle at Delphi: “A great kingdom ...
... The Presocratics: Thales of Miletus and the eclipse Hecataeus of Miletus and his map of the world Herodotus and the invention of history Herodotus’s method: comparing stories, interviewing priests The origins of the conflict between Europe and Asia Croesus and the oracle at Delphi: “A great kingdom ...
Herodotus
Herodotus (/hɨˈrɒdətəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος Hēródotos, pronounced [hɛː.ró.do.tos]) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484–425 BC). Widely referred to as ""The Father of History"" (first conferred by Cicero), he was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically and critically, and then to arrange them into a historiographic narrative. The Histories—the only work he is known to have produced—is a record of his ""inquiry"" (or ἱστορία historía, a word that passed into Latin and acquired its modern meaning of ""history""), being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. Although some of his stories were fanciful and others inaccurate, he states he was reporting only what was told to him and was often correct in his information. Despite Herodotus' historical significance, little is known of his personal history.Today, The Histories is generally regarded as a masterpiece of non-fiction.