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Herodotus

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Herodotus was the inventor of universal history. Often called the Father of History, his histories are divided into nine books named after the nine muses. A native of Halicarnassus on the coast of Asia Minor (modern Bodrum, Turkey), he traveled extensively, writing lively descriptions of the lands vis mere he saw and the peoples he encountered. Herodotus set out to relate the story of the conflict of the Greeks of his own time against the "barbarian" Asiatic empire of Achaemenid Persia. His long narrative, titled by modern convention The Histories, begins with the earliest traditions he believed reliable. It ends with a highly colored account of the defeat of the Persian emperor Xerxes and his immense army of slaves by a much smaller number of Greeks fighting to preserve their freedom. Herodotus wrote history, but his methods and assumptions were not those of a modern historian, and his work was unjustly rejected by his successor Thucydides as factually highly unreliable and full of inappropriate romance. By his own admission, Herodotus retold the stories of other peoples without necessarily believing them all. This allowed him total artistic freedom and control to create a picture of the world that corresponded entirely to his own view of it. The result is a picture of Herodotus's world that is also a picture of his mind and, therefore, of many other Greek minds during the period known as "late Archaic." During this period, the Greek mind was dominated by reason, the domain of the first philosophers and the observant and thoughtful medical theorists of the Hippocratic school. Traditional beliefs in the gods of Homer and in their Oracles, especially the Oracle at Delphi, also dominated during this period. The literary genius of Herodotus consisted in the art of the storyteller. The stories he chose to tell, and the order in which he told them, provide his readers with a total view of his world and the way in which the will of the gods and the ambitions of humans interacted to produce what is known as history. For this reason the ancient critic Longinus justly called Herodotus "the most Homeric of all authors." Like Homer, Herodotus strove to understand the world theologically---a goal that makes his work difficult for the reader to understand at first. But, in place of Homer's divine inspiration, Herodotus used his eyes and ears and wrote not poetry but prose. Rejecting what is commonly known as myth, he accepted instead "oral tradition" about remembered events. For example, although he believed that the Trojan War had been fought, he could not investigate it beyond what the poets had said. In his view this "ancient history" of the Greeks and the peoples of Asia was not like contemporary history, because the heroes of old who had created it were beings of a different and superior order who had had a different, direct, and personal relationship with the gods. In recognizing this distinction, Herodotus defined for all time the limits of the historian's discipline. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Image credit: Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)

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Herodotus was a storyteller. The man loved hearing and repeating a good story, even if he felt it necessary to also write down, "Now, I don't believe this myself, I'm just telling you what I heard." He traveled all over what was the known world to a 5th Century BC Ionian Greek talking to leading citizens and gathering material for his epic of ethnography, geography and history, with the Greco-Persian Wars providing the organizing backbone of the work. The Histories is a mixture of the mythological and the historically accurate, and where that line is drawn in this work is still a matter for debate evidently. Wherever that may be, this is what people in this part of the world 2,500 years ago believed, which the curious mind of today will find interesting.

I found this Oxford University Press translation to be very readable, and the notes/commentary to be helpful in answering many "how historically accurate is THAT" questions, and in pointing out references to other sections of the work. This is definitely a two bookmark book, one for the main text and one for the running commentary that comes after. Also extremely helpful is having access to Wikipedia at your fingertips, especially for aiding your sense of the geography of the story. Pro tip: Greece at the time was a highly fractious plethora of city-states ranging from Libya to Asia Minor. You're gonna need to look places up.
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Very accessible. Lots and lots of yummy maps. Definitely worth it for the accounts of Thermopylae and Plataea. Also of note is the description of (ancient) Egypt.
 
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En estos libros, Heródoto, nos narra la conquista de Egipto por parte de Cambises, y el golpe de estado de Darío. Nos describe el imperio persa, con más o menos acierto. No despreciemos las historias fantásticas que el mismo Heródoto, sin creérselas nos transmite, ya que hasta las más absurdas, tienen base histórica. Nuevamente, las fantásticas notas a pie de página nos aclaran esto y mucho más. Continua describiendo hechos e historias de Samos, únicos y valiosísimos. La conquista de Tracia, Escitia (que fracasó), Cirenaica y Libia, deteniéndose siempre en narrar las historias fundacionales, la fauna y flora, la geografía, clima, costumbres, etc.… (mere)
 
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Esta Historia de Heródoto, puede criticarse desde la comodidad de la perspectiva que tenemos en la actualidad de la misma manera que un adulto achacoso critica los primeros pasos de un niño. La historia no deja de avanzar actualmente pero, estos dos primeros libros supusieron los primeros pasos, que se dieron de forma ejemplar y vigorosa, con una trascendencia que aún supera los primeros que se dieron en la Luna. Sí, estos libros, están plagados de anécdotas, fábulas, cuentos, leyendas, en su mayoría de origen popular. No desdeñemos ese material, lo podemos digerir desde otras perspectivas, y el resultado será muy nutritivo. Heródoto, gusta de buscar el origen racional, incluso en lo más irracional, hablarnos de las costumbres cotidianas, religiosas y políticas, además de mencionar hechos bélicos. Realiza detalladas descripciones y cita a varios autores, polemizando en ocasiones. sus descripciones físicas suelen ir acompañadas de medidas; Heródoto nos abruma con pesos y distancias constantemente, sin embargo este ejemplar de la Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, nos da todas las equivalencias, además de todas las aclaraciones necesarias. Heródoto, es alguien que ha viajado, que ha realizado muchas entrevistas, que ha leído y que ha asistido a muchos eventos religiosos, festividades etc. En estos dos libros, se nos narran los antecedentes de la guerra entre persas y griegos. Comienza con Lidia y su rey Creso, si bien, nos pone en antecedentes y en contexto sin perder detalle. En el segundo libro, nos habla de Egipto, sus faraones, guerras, costumbres, particularidades culturales geográficas, etc. En resumen, fuera de toda discusión: Heródoto es de lectura obligatoria, pero, además es gratamente entretenido de leer, máxime si las notas de esta edición no nos dejan ningún dato sin aclarar.… (mere)
 
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