I wrote a lil biography for our Herodotos snoo, just so that the great and wonderful actions of Greeks and foreigners should not lose their due famehttps://twitter.com/askhistorians/status/1409171159594147844 …
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Yeah, I think that is very true. I think the contrast with Thucydides is instructive; Herodotus is telling us what he knows, but in a lot of cases, Thucydides is actively trying to get one over on you and he's a lot more deliberately clever about it.
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Exactly. I often point out to people that Herodotos explicitly tells us that he's mostly just retelling stories he's heard and he doesn't necessarily believe all the stories he retells. In many cases, he even overtly expresses skepticism of his own stories. 1/
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Thoukydides, on the other hand, generally has an attitude of "Everything I say is true, because I'm Thoukydides and I say it's true." Which is, in some ways, actually a lot more mendacious. 2/
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As James M. Banner points out in 'The Ever-Changing Past' (
@yalepress 2021, 74-76) Herodotus invests in inquiry (historia), giving equal importance to different civilizations, whereas Thucydides gives primacy to power and statecraft.Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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