S Benardete

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Herodotean Inquiries (1969)Paperback - 1969, 31 July 1970

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217 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Springer
Date Published
31 Jul 1970
ISBN-10
9024700159
ISBN-13
9789024700158

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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.

Product Details

Author:
S Benardete
Book Edition:
1969
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
31 July 1970
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 1.22 cm
ISBN-10:
9024700159
ISBN-13:
9789024700158
Language:
English
Location:
Dordrecht
Pages:
217
Publisher:
Weight:
326.59 gm

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