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Herodotus
23 Sep, History of the Ancient World
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of histories, dubbed by his detractors as the father of lies. Herodotus (c to BC or later) was raised in Halicarnassus in modern Turkey when it was part of the Persian empire and, in the years after the Persian Wars, set about an inquiry into the deep background to those wars. He also aimed to preserve what he called the great and marvellous deeds of Greeks and non-Greeks, seeking out the best bevis for past events and presenting the range of evidence for readers to assess. Plutarch was to criticise Herodotus for using this to promote the least flattering accounts of his fellow Greeks, hence the ‘father of lies’, but the depth and breadth of his Histories have secured his reputation from his lifetime down to the present day.
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Guests
- Tom HarrisonNo other episodes
Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews - LAST REVIEWED: 14 December
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Armayor, O. K. Did Herodotus ever go to the Black Sea? Harvard Studies in Classical Philology –
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A skeptical approach to Herodotus’s claims about his travels.
Asheri, David. General introduction. In A commentary on Herodotus Books I–IV. Edited by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno, 1– Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
A brief and balanced discussion of the biographical material both inside and outside the Histories, pp. 1–7.
Forrest, W. G. Herodotos and Athens. Phoenix –
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Historical analysis of Herodotus’s possible relationship with Athens.
Isager, Signe. The pride of Halicarnassus: Editio princeps of an inscription from Salmakis. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik –
A Greek inscription from Roman times in which Halicarnassus claims Herodotus as her own citizen.
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Herodotus
Greek historian and geographer (c–c BC)
For other uses, see Herodotus (disambiguation).
Herodotus[a] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized:&#;Hēródotos; c.&#;&#;– c.&#; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars among other subjects such as the rise of the Achaemenid Dynasty of Cyrus, and was the first writer to apply the scientific method to historical events. He has been described as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient långnovell orator Cicero,[2][3] and the "Father of Lies" by others.
The Histories primarily cover the lives of prominent kings and famous battles such as Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale. His work deviates from the main topics to pr
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