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Popularly often called the 'Father of History', Herodotus is the 1st significant prose author within the historical past of Western literature whose paintings has survived in complete. At a time whilst the traditional Greeks' wisdom of the previous depended on orally transmitted thoughts, he was once a pioneering old practitioner who explored the interaction of fable and background and the function of narrative in historical past. members to this quantity learn Herodotus' Histories and their impact. Taking a thematic process, they discover the Histories and their context, options and topics, illustration of the Greeks' relationships with foreigners and reception.
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Herodotus, therefore, cannot have looked to Homer or Hesiod for his notions of past and present. Where he could and did look was to praise poetry, where Pindar, Bacchylides and Simonides (to name only a few) chose contemporary men and events as the subjects of their poems. In epinician poetry the poet praises a victorious athlete, but does so in a way that connects him with his ancestors, or with some hero whose exploits often form the central myth of the ode. 25 Yet it was not Pindar alone who pointed the way for Herodotus here.
Both Michael Flower and Tim Rood consider Herodotus’ interest in the nomoi or customs of others as a fascination with gridding the specific details of cultural distinctiveness, and also in investigating the more general phenomenon of foreignness. g. 16). He does not create a simple-minded dichotomy or clich´ed portrait of the hubris of autocratic kings; both retribution for the sacking of Sardis and the needs of an expansionist imperialism are in play in the Persian war effort, as well as a code of Achilles-like military honour that the Greeks 8 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2006 Introduction themselves less consistently embody.
99). Both Luraghi and Fowler stress the enormous achievement of Herodotus’ Histories in using his melange of logoi from distant times and places in effect to grid the extent of contemporary Greek knowledge both about the period of Persian expansion and about the world in which that expansion occurred. Several pieces, notably those of Egbert Bakker, Fowler, Luraghi and Marincola, analyse the originality of Herodotus’ prose accomplishment, making use of previous material and generic expectations in order to produce a new genre of his own from it.