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Herodotean Inquiries

Herodotean Inquiries

Benardete, S.

Paperback

Greek (Modern)General Reference

ISBN10: 9024700159
ISBN13: 9789024700158
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 31 1970
Pages: 217
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Herodotus has so often been called, since ancient times, the father of history that this title has blinded us to the question: Was the father of history an historian? Everyone knows that the Greek word from which 'history' is derived always means inquiry in Herodotus. His so-called Histories are in- quiries, and by that name I have preferred to call them. His inquiries partly result in the presentation of events that are now called 'historical'; but other parts of his inquiry would now belong to the province of the anthro- pologist or geographer. Herodotus does not recognize these fields as distinct; they all belong equally to the subject of his inquiry, but it is not self-evident what he understands to be his subject: the notorious difficulties in the proemium are enough to indicate this. If his work presents us with so strange a mixture of different fields, we are entitled to ask: Did Herodotus under- stand even its historical element as we understand it? Without any proof everyone, as far as I am aware, who has studied him has assumed this to be so.

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