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Herodotus

Autor(a) de The Histories

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About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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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The Histories (0420) 9,956 exemplares
The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories (0440) 1,678 exemplares
The Persian Wars (0425) 452 exemplares
Herodoti Historiae Libri I-IV (0425) 291 exemplares
Herodoti Historiae Libri V-IX (1915) — Autor — 148 exemplares
Madness of Cambyses (1600) 144 exemplares
Historiae 1: Clio (1909) 126 exemplares
The Histories (Books 5 to 9) (0425) 120 exemplares
The Histories (1998) 104 exemplares
An Account of Egypt (0430) 91 exemplares
Historiae 8: Urania (1970) 63 exemplares
The Struggle for Greece (1900) 49 exemplares
Herodoti Historiae (1997) 44 exemplares
The Histories (Books 1 to 4) (1985) 43 exemplares
Historia. Libros V-VI (1988) 38 exemplares
Historiae 3: Thalia (1977) 36 exemplares
Historiae 7: Polymnia (1994) 34 exemplares
Hérodote - Thucydide : Oeuvres (1964) 32 exemplares
Historiae 6: Erato (1896) 30 exemplares
Herodotus (1868) 25 exemplares
The Penguin Herodotus (1941) 23 exemplares
Història. Llibre II (2009) 18 exemplares
Complete Works of Herodotus (2013) 18 exemplares
Herodotus, book II (1959) 18 exemplares
L'enquête 13 exemplares
Historiae 5: Terpsichore (1977) 13 exemplares
Historiae 2: Euterpe (1978) 13 exemplares
Tarih (2006) 11 exemplares
Zeer korte verhalen (1987) 11 exemplares
The Masterpiece Library of Short Stories Volumes 1 & 2 (1940) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Història : Llibres I-III (1988) 9 exemplares
Historiae 4: Melpomene (1978) 9 exemplares
Veertig verhalen (1998) 9 exemplares
Historia (2015) 8 exemplares
Le storie di Erodoto (1992) — Autor — 8 exemplares
Història. II (2009) 8 exemplares
Herodotus, Volume I: Books I-II (1921) 7 exemplares
HISTORIA V. Libros VIII-IX (2006) 7 exemplares
Herodotos, Volume 4 6 exemplares
A görög - perzsa háború (1989) 6 exemplares
Storie vol. II Libri 5-9 (2007) 5 exemplares
L' ||Egypte : histoires (2010) 5 exemplares
A Batalha das Termópilas (2007) 5 exemplares
HISTORIA IV . Libro VII (2011) 5 exemplares
The History (2010) 4 exemplares
Herodotus Book 1 (1986) 4 exemplares
Historia : el Egipto antiguo (1901) 4 exemplares
Historia. Vol. 4, Libro VII (1977) 4 exemplares
Herodot i udvalg (1983) 4 exemplares
Vita Homeri Herodotea (2013) 3 exemplares
Histórias - Livro I (2007) 3 exemplares
História 3 exemplares
Histories. Book VI (2017) 3 exemplares
Herodots Historie 1 3 exemplares
El club del hachís (1999) 3 exemplares
Història. II 3 exemplares
Història. I 3 exemplares
Historia 3 exemplares
Historia 3 exemplares
Historia 3 exemplares
Historias: Euterpe - Livro 2 (2016) 3 exemplares
Storici greci (1993) 3 exemplares
Historia 3 exemplares
Historiae: Libri V-IX (1962) 3 exemplares
Història, volum II 2 exemplares
Navorsingen een bloemlezing (1979) 2 exemplares
2: Libri 5.-9. (1998) 2 exemplares
Histoires, tome 2 2 exemplares
Histories of Herodotus (1958) 2 exemplares
Historias - Livro VI (2007) 2 exemplares
Herodotos (2012) 2 exemplares
Història III 2 exemplares
Herodots Historie 2 2 exemplares
Loeb: Herodotus (4 vols.) (1971) 2 exemplares
Erodoto e Tucidide 2 exemplares
Histórias. Tália - Livro III (2017) 2 exemplares
Histoires 2 exemplares
Landmark Herodotus 2 exemplares
The Persian Wars 2 exemplares
Los Nueve libros de la historia (1987) 2 exemplares
Història (2001) 2 exemplares
Historiarum libri IX 2 exemplares
Return to Atlantis (1992) 2 exemplares
The History 2 exemplares
Herodotus. Book VIII 2 exemplares
Historiarum, Libri 9 2 exemplares
Historiarum Libri ix (2010) 2 exemplares
Dějiny 2 exemplares
Història (2000) 2 exemplares
Historias (1990) 2 exemplares
Història : llibres IV-VI (2003) 2 exemplares
Historia V 1 exemplar
Historia IV 1 exemplar
Historias I 1 exemplar
Historias II 1 exemplar
HISTORIATEOS 2 1 exemplar
Historia III 1 exemplar
Historia II 1 exemplar
Histories 1 exemplar
Historiens grecs 1 exemplar
Stories of the Persian wars (2010) 1 exemplar
Historia I 1 exemplar
Histoire. Tome II 1 exemplar
Histoire. Tome I 1 exemplar
Découverte du Monde (1996) 1 exemplar
Historias III [Historiae] (1984) 1 exemplar
Historia. Libro I, Clío (2010) 1 exemplar
Historias (1977) 1 exemplar
Libri I, II 1 exemplar
Historiarum libri 1 exemplar
Historias 1 exemplar
HISTORITE 1 exemplar
Zgodbe (2006) 1 exemplar
Ιστορία 1 exemplar
ΚΑΛΛΙΟΠΗ 1 exemplar
Histoires, tome 1 : Clio (1932) 1 exemplar
Ουρανία 1 exemplar
Καλλιό 1 exemplar
Dzieje. [T.] 2 1 exemplar
Historia. Libros VI-VII (2021) 1 exemplar
Historia. Libros III-V (2020) 1 exemplar
Dzieje. [T.] 1 1 exemplar
Història 1 exemplar
Herodotos historia 1 exemplar
Historien . Erster Band (1974) 1 exemplar
Auswahl aus Herodot. (1948) 1 exemplar
Le Storie, voll. 2 1 exemplar
Heredot Tarihi 1 exemplar
Herodotos 1 exemplar
Jude the Obscure 1 exemplar
Herodotus, VII 1 exemplar
Dějiny 1 exemplar
Great Books 6 1 exemplar
Histories. Book 1 (2022) 1 exemplar
Famous Travels and Voyages (1937) 1 exemplar
Book IX 1 exemplar
Book VIII 1 exemplar
Herodotus - 2 1 exemplar
Herodotus - 1 1 exemplar
Antologia erodotea 1 exemplar
Herodotus Book I 1 exemplar
Book VIII (1993) 1 exemplar
HERODOTUS THE HISTORIES (1972) 1 exemplar
Das Geschichtswerk, 2 Bände (1985) 1 exemplar
Book VI: Erato (1959) 1 exemplar
Herodot (2010) 1 exemplar
Historiae 1 exemplar
Herodotos erklärt 1 exemplar
Herodotus Bk I, 1 exemplar
Herodotus Bk. III 1 exemplar
Histories (2016) 1 exemplar
Historien. Buch 3 (2007) 1 exemplar
Le storie - vol. 6 1 exemplar
Història IX 1 exemplar
Història VIII 1 exemplar
Història V 1 exemplar
Història IV 1 exemplar
Història II 1 exemplar
Història I (2000) 1 exemplar
Le Guerre Persiane 1 exemplar
Le storie - vol. 5 1 exemplar
Herodotus VIII 1 exemplar
Le storie - vol. 4 1 exemplar
Le storie - vol. 3 1 exemplar
Le storie - vol. 2 1 exemplar
Storie vol I 1 exemplar
Storie volume II 1 exemplar
Història (VI) (2009) 1 exemplar
˜Les œbarbares (2015) 1 exemplar
Muzen 1 exemplar
Història (VII) (2010) 1 exemplar
Historias. V. 1 1 exemplar
Història, vol. IX 1 exemplar
Història, vol. VI 1 exemplar
Història, vol. V 1 exemplar
Història, vol. IV 1 exemplar
HISTÒRIA 1 exemplar
Il Nilo 1 exemplar
Elder-God Conspiracy (1988) 1 exemplar
Histtory (2 Vols) 1 exemplar
History: Vol 2 1 exemplar
History: Vol 1 1 exemplar
The Greek Histories (2017) 1 exemplar
Il regno di Creso 1 exemplar
Index analitique 1 exemplar
Introduction 1 exemplar
Le storie libro IX 1 exemplar
STORIE LIBRO I° 1 exemplar
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Selections from Greek Historians (1878) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Stories from Herodotus (1965) — Story — 9 exemplares
The Realm of the Impossible (2017) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Griekse geschiedschrijvers (1951) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
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Égypte — Compositor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Ήρόδοτος Άλικαρνάσσεως
Outros nomes
Herodotos
Data de nascimento
484 BCE (circa)
Data de falecimento
425 BCE (circa)
Localização do túmulo
Thurii
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Ancient Greece
Persian Empire
País (no mapa)
Greece
Turkey
Local de nascimento
Halicarnassus
Local de falecimento
Thurii
Locais de residência
Halicarnassus
Athens
Thurii
Ocupações
historian

Membros

Discussions

Herodotus Reread of Book I em Ancient History (Fevereiro 2021)
New Herodotus em Ancient History (Novembro 2013)
Herodotus (Anything and Everything) em Ancient History (Dezembro 2008)
Herodotus vs. Thucydides em Ancient History (Março 2007)

Críticas

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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lelandleslie | 84 outras críticas | Feb 24, 2024 |
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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Byakhee | 21 outras críticas | Feb 21, 2024 |
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.… (mais)
 
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carlosisaac | 3 outras críticas | Feb 19, 2024 |
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.… (mais)
 
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carlosisaac | 2 outras críticas | Jan 24, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
639
Also by
26
Membros
16,710
Popularidade
#1,350
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
156
ISBN
586
Línguas
23
Marcado como favorito
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