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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Roman copy of a Greek original of the early 4th century BC,
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
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Opere di Herodotus
Grolier Classics: Scarlet Letter, History of Herodotus, Utilitarianism and On Liberty, Sonnets (1956) 18 copie
L'enquête 13 copie
Herodotus Reader: Annotated Passages from Books I-IX of the Histories (Focus Classical Commentary) (2010) 8 copie
L'enquête. Livres I à IV 6 copie
Herodotos, Volume 4 6 copie
Herodotus, books VII and VIII 5 copie
History of the Persian Wars: Books I, II (The Great Books Foundation discussion program. The second year course) (1949) 5 copie
Herodote Histoires (Livre IX) 5 copie
Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books: With Introduction, Text, Apparatus, Commentary, Appendices, Indices,… (1973) 5 copie
Grandes Batallas Del Mundo Antiguo / Great Battles of the Ancient World (Spanish Edition) (2010) 4 copie
ENQUÊTE LIVRES I À IV (L') 3 copie
Le storie. Libri 89. La vittoria della Grecia.. Introduzione, Traduzione e Note Di Fulvio Barberis Con Un Saggio… (1990) 3 copie
Historia Las guerras mâedicas 3 copie
Historia Las guerras mâedicas 3 copie
Das Geschichtswerk Zweiter Band 3 copie
Herodots Historie 1 3 copie
Història. II 3 copie
Història. I 3 copie
Historia 3 copie
L'Enquête Livres 1 a 4 3 copie
Complete Works of Herodotus 3 copie
STORIES FROM HERODOTUS 3 copie
Herodotus: Persian Wars: A Companion to the Penguin Translation of "Books V-IX (Classical Studies Series) (1991) 3 copie
HERODOTI [HERODOTUS: HISTORIAE] HISTORIARUM LIBRI IX [VOL. II. 2 ONLY] Edidit Henr. Rudolph. Dietsch. Editio Altera.… (1896) 3 copie
Erodoto e Tucidide 2 copie
Història III 2 copie
Das Geschichtswerk Bd. 1 [...] 2 copie
Histories Books I - III 2 copie
The Persian Wars 2 copie
The History 2 copie
Landmark Herodotus 2 copie
The History: The Persian War on Greece, Athens and the Spartans at Thermopylae, Salamis and Marathon (2009) 2 copie
The Greek Historians: The Complete and Unabridged Works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon and Arrian, Vol. 1 (1942) 2 copie
Herodots Historie 2 2 copie
Herodotus. Book VIII 2 copie
HERODOTI [HERODOTUS: HISTORIAE] HISTORIARUM LIBRI IX [VOL. I ONLY] Edidit Henr. Rudolph. Dietsch. Editio Altera.… (1935) 2 copie
HISTORIATEOS 1. - WSOY 2 copie
Història, volum II 2 copie
Histoires 2 copie
Herodoti Historiae Libri V-IX 2 copie
Histoires, tome 2 2 copie
Dějiny 2 copie
Historiarum, Libri 9 2 copie
Le storie 2: Le guerre persiane 2 copie
Historiarum libri IX 2 copie
Le Storie. Libro II: L'Egitto 2 copie
Herodotus, erklärt von H. Stein 2 copie
Historia III 1 copia
HERODOTO HISTORIAS TOMO II 1 copia
Historias II 1 copia
Historias I 1 copia
Historia I 1 copia
Historia V 1 copia
Historia IV 1 copia
Historia II 1 copia
Επτά νουβέλες και τρία ανέκδοτα 1 copia
Histoire. Tome II 1 copia
Herodotos' historia 1 copia
Herodots Historie - Femte Hæfte 1 copia
Herodots Historie - Fjerde Hæfte 1 copia
Herodots Historie - Tjedie Hæfte 1 copia
Herodots Historie - Andet Hæfte 1 copia
Herodotus [3] Books V-VII 1 copia
HISTORIATEOS 2 1 copia
Heredot Tarihi 1 copia
Herodotos 1 copia
Herodotoksen historiateos 1 copia
Herodotus [4] Books VIII-IX 1 copia
Herodotus [2] Books III-IV 1 copia
Histoire. Tome I 1 copia
The Histories: Complete 1 copia
Historiens grecs 1 copia
Struggle for Greece, The 1 copia
Découverte du Monde Antique 1 copia
The History of the P... War 1 copia
تاريخ هيرودوت 1 copia
Herodotus; 8, 1-90: Artemisium and Salamis. With introd. and notes by E.S. Shuckburgh Volume 8 (2010) 1 copia
Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX, Vol. 1: Adiectus Est Libellus de Vita Homeri (Classic Reprint) (Latin… (2017) 1 copia
Herodot's von Halikarnaß Geschichte, Vol. 6: Zweite Abtheilung (Classic Reprint) (German Edition) (2017) 1 copia
Herodotos Forschungen 1 copia
HERODOTO HISTORIAS TOMO III 1 copia
HERODOTO HISTORIAS TOMO I 1 copia
Libri I, II 1 copia
Historia El Egipto antigüo 1 copia
Los 9 libros de la historia, II 1 copia
A Batalha de Termópilas 1 copia
Historiarum libri 1 copia
Histórias livro 4º 1 copia
Histórias - livro 3º 1 copia
Le storie: libro II, l'Egitto 1 copia
Historias 1 copia
ΕΠΤΑ ΝΟΥΒΕΛΕΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΡΙΑ ΑΝΕΚΔΟΤΑ 1 copia
Histoires... Texte établi et traduit par Ph. E. [Philippe-Alexandre-Ernest-Félix] Legrand,... 1 copia
Ägyptische Märchen 1 copia
HISTORITE 1 copia
Herodoti Orientalia antiquiora; 1 copia
Historiarum Libri LX 1 copia
Ιστορία 1 copia
L'Egypte d'Hérodote : Livre II 1 copia
Harangues Tirées D'hérodote, De Thucyde, Des Histoires Grecs De Xénophon, De Sa Retraite Des… (2012) 1 copia
ΚΑΛΛΙΟΠΗ 1 copia
Κλειώ Τόμος Α' 1 copia
Ουρανία 1 copia
Καλλιό 1 copia
Πολύμνια Τόμος Α & Β 1 copia
Ερατώ Τόμος Α & Β 1 copia
Ευτέρπη Τόμος Α 1 copia
ΚΛΕΙΩ ΤΟΜΟΣ Α 1 copia
Libro 9.: La battaglia di Platea 1 copia
Dzieje. [T.] 2 1 copia
LAS GUERRAS MEDICAS I - HERODOTO - BIBLIOTECA GREDOS - CLASICOS ESENCIALES DE GRECIA Y ROMA TOMO 7 1 copia
Hellenere og barbarer 1 copia
LAS GUERRAS MEDICAS II -HERODOTO - BIBLIOTECA GREDOS - CLASICOS ESENCIALES DE GRECIA Y ROMA TOMO 8 1 copia
Las guerras médicas II 1 copia
Las guerras médicas I 1 copia
HISTORIA V - HERODOTO 1 copia
HISTORIA IV - HERODOTO 1 copia
HISTORIA III - HERODOTO 1 copia
HISTORIA II- HERODOTO 1 copia
HISTORIA I - HERODOTO 1 copia
Dzieje. [T.] 1 1 copia
Reisen und Forschungen in Afrika 1 copia
Istorii vol. 2 (cartile I-IV) 1 copia
Història 1 copia
Història. Llibre II 1 copia
Wybór z Dziejów Herodota 1 copia
The History of Herodotus - The History of the Peloponnesian War (Great Books of the Western World 5) 1 copia
Herodotos historia 1 copia
Le Storie, voll. 2 1 copia
Herodotos. Bd 1: H. 1, Buch I 1 copia
Herodotus, VII 1 copia
Jude the Obscure 1 copia
The Histories of Herodutus 1 copia
Herodotos IX : (Kalliope) 1 copia
Herodotos. Book V, Terpsichore 1 copia
Antologia erodotea 1 copia
Herodotus, books vi and vii;: With a life of Herodotus, an epitome of his history a summary of the dialect, and… (1885) 1 copia
Bibliotheca Classica 1 copia
Histories I, II, III 1 copia
Herodotos erklärt 1 copia
Herodoti Vita Homeri 1 copia
Herodote : l'Égypte ancienne 1 copia
Book IX 1 copia
Book VIII 1 copia
The History Of Herodotus. A New Engl. Version, Ed. With Notes By G. Rawlinson Assisted By Sir H. Rawlinson And Sir J.g.… (2015) 1 copia
Herodotus - 2 1 copia
Herodotus - 1 1 copia
Herodots 1. bog : Kong Kroisos 1 copia
Herodotus. Clio: Tr. Literally from the Text of Baeher [Sic] by H. Owgan (Ancient Greek Edition) (2010) 1 copia
Histories by Herodotus and History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides with Illustrations by Nicholas Tamblyn and… (2018) 1 copia
Herodoti Historiarum Libri IX 1 copia
The history of Herodotus 1 copia
Herodotus Bk I, 1 copia
Le Storie. Libro IX 1 copia
Herodotus IX (Kalliope) 1 copia
Calliope (History, Book 9 of 9) 1 copia
Histoires IX: Calliope 1 copia
Storie:vol IV(libri VIII-IX) 1 copia
Storie. Vol. 1: Libri I-IV 1 copia
Herodotus Bk. III 1 copia
Histories Books V-VII 1 copia
Herodotus IV, ch. 1-144. 1 copia
Il Quinto libro delle Storie 1 copia
Il Terzo libro delle Storie 1 copia
Il Secondo libro delle Storie 1 copia
Il Settimo libro delle Storie 1 copia
Herodotus : Translated from the Greek for the Use of General Readers ; with Short Explanatory Notes 1 copia
Herodoti Historiae T. 1 [...] 1 copia
The History of Herodotus Vol. 4 1 copia
The History of Herodotus Vol. 3 1 copia
Dějiny 1 copia
Histories Vol II (Books V - IX) 1 copia
Historiae Books I-IV 1 copia
Tales from Herodotus (Book 1) 1 copia
Historiae 1 copia
The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus Tr. from the Text by T. Gaisford, with Notes and a Summary by P.E. Larent (2012) 1 copia
Herodotus Book I 1 copia
The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. With Copious Notes and Appendices, Volume 2 (2015) 1 copia
Storie libri 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 1 copia
Le storie - vol. 6 1 copia
Le storie - vol. 5 1 copia
Le storie - vol. 4 1 copia
Le storie - vol. 3 1 copia
Le storie - vol. 2 1 copia
Storie vol I 1 copia
Storie volume II 1 copia
Storie. Libro settimo (Polimnia) 1 copia
le storie libro nono 1 copia
Storie. Libro ottavo (Urania) 1 copia
Storie. Libro nono (Calliope) 1 copia
Storie - libro secondo (Euterpe) 1 copia
Storie - libro terzo (Talia) 1 copia
Storie - libro sesto (Erato) 1 copia
Muzen 1 copia
I popoli,i costumi,gli eventi 1 copia
Le Guerre Persiane 1 copia
Index analitique 1 copia
Història, vol. V 1 copia
Histoires. Tomes 1 & 2 1 copia
Historias. V. 1 1 copia
Història, vol. IX 1 copia
Història, vol. VIII 1 copia
Història, vol. VII 1 copia
Història, vol. VI 1 copia
Història, vol. IV 1 copia
Història, vol. III 1 copia
Herodoti historiarum libri IX 1 copia
Hérodote : Histoires, livre V 1 copia
Història IX 1 copia
Història VIII 1 copia
Història V 1 copia
Història IV 1 copia
Història II 1 copia
Historiae libri i-iv v-ix 1 copia
Histories livres viii-ix 1 copia
The History of Herodotus: Chiefly after the text of Gaisford, with preliminary observations and appendices, and English… (2017) 1 copia
Great Books Of The Western World by Encyclopedia Britannica 1952 (Herodotus Thucydides, Vol 6) 1 copia
The History of Heredotus Vol 2 1 copia
History: Vol 1 1 copia
Herodoti Historiae: libri i-iv recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit Carolus Hude 1 copia
Herodotus : in four volumes 1 copia
Herodotus, the Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Books: With Introduction, Text, Apparatus, Commentary, Appendices, Indices,… (2017) 1 copia
Great Books 6 1 copia
The History Of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. With Copious Notes And Appendices, Illustrating The History And… (2012) 1 copia
History: Vol 2 1 copia
Histoires libres v-vi-vii 1 copia
Introduction 1 copia
Le storie libro IX 1 copia
Herodotus VIII 1 copia
STORIE LIBRO I° 1 copia
Storie IV (Libri VIII-IX) 1 copia
Storie III (Libri V-VI-VII) 1 copia
Storie II (Libri III-IV) 1 copia
Storie I (Libri I-II) 1 copia
Storie, volume primo, Libri I-IV 1 copia
Herodotus Index Analytique 1 copia
Histtory (2 Vols) 1 copia
Herodote Introduction 1 copia
Storie. Volume 4 1 copia
Storie. Volume 3 1 copia
Il libro terzo delle storie 1 copia
Il regno di Creso 1 copia
Il Nilo 1 copia
Herodoti Halicarnassensis Musae 1 copia
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Erzählungen der Antike 1 copia
Égypte — Compositore — 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Ήρόδοτος Άλικαρνάσσεως
- Altri nomi
- Herodotos
- Data di nascita
- 484 BCE (circa)
- Data di morte
- 425 BCE (circa)
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Thurii
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Ancient Greece
Persian Empire - Nazione (per mappa)
- Greece
Turkey - Luogo di nascita
- Halicarnassus
- Luogo di morte
- Thurii
- Luogo di residenza
- Halicarnassus
Athens
Thurii - Attività lavorative
- historian
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- Preferito da
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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.… (altro)