Herodotean Inquiries

S. Benardete (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

217 Seiten

1970
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-90-247-0015-8 (ISBN)

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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.

I. Herodotus.- II. Egypt.- III. Persia.- IV. Scythia and Libya.- V. Athens.- VI. Sparta.- VII. Persia and Greece.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.1970
Zusatzinfo	VII, 217 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-247-0015-9 / 9024700159
ISBN-13	978-90-247-0015-8 / 9789024700158
Zustand	Neuware