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    Herodotus
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    Herodotus

    23 Sep, History of the Ancient World

    Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek writer known as the father of histories, dubbed by his detractors as the father of lies. Herodotus (c to BC or later) was raised in Halicarnassus in modern Turkey when it was part of the Persian empire and, in the years after the Persian Wars, set about an inquiry into the deep background to those wars. He also aimed to preserve what he called the great and marvellous deeds of Greeks and non-Greeks, seeking out the best bevis for past events and presenting the range of evidence for readers to assess. Plutarch was to criticise Herodotus for using this to promote the least flattering accounts of his fellow Greeks, hence the ‘father of lies’, but the depth and breadth of his Histories have secured his reputation from his lifetime down to the present day.

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    Guests

    • Tom HarrisonNo other episodes
      Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews

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      Herodotus

      Herodotus, a Clazomenian

      Herodotus (2), an Ionian envoy

      Herodotus (3), of Halicarnassus

      Life

      Birth of Herodotus at Halicarnassus c. Death of Herodotus at Thurii c. The Historyof Herodotus begins with the seemingly unambiguous declaration that “this is the exposition of the researches by Herodotus of Halicarnassus,” a town in Asia Minor. But already in the first century A.D., the author Plutarch reports (On Exile F) that many scholars change Halicarnassos to Thurii, an Athenian colony in Southern Italy, since Herodotus settled there later on in life. This confusion, though minor (there is no doubt as to which Herodotus is described, and all agree that he did in fact move to Thurii), touches on a major theme in Herodotus’ own life, his ambiguous and in some ways marginal status within the Greek world. Herodotus never belonged to the ancient Greek homeland, and his own work offers eloquent testimony to the rivalry between the old, established states of the mainl