Secondly, both introductions allude to the importance of the Trojan War. This is shown in the use of the introduction to create the dichotomy between the warring countries of both histories Thucydides makes use of the Archaeology to distinguish between Athens and Sparta. Firstly, this introduction is mimicked by Thucydides in his ‘Archaeology’. There are two cursory notes I would like to add to this. Herodotus gives us his reason in beginning his ‘research’ with the abduction of Io and Europa as being that these events explain the divide between Persia and Greece. The translation of Herodotus I will be using.īook One has three key elements I will discuss in this analysis: the introduction, Herodotus’ method and his structure. I plan on finishing this series with posts centered around other historians’ analysis of Herodotus so as to reach an informed conclusion.
As mentioned in my previous blog post, in reviewing my reading of Herodotus I am attempting to find purpose and understand the way in which his work has been written.
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