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- Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 From Ethnography to History
- Chapter 2 ‘Romantic Poet-Sage of History’
- Chapter 3 Herodotus as Anti-classical Toolbox
- Chapter 4 George Grote and the ‘Open-hearted Herodotus’
- Chapter 5 Imagining Empire through Herodotus
- Chapter 6 Two Victorian Egypts of Herodotus
- Chapter 7 Of Europe
- Chapter 8 From Scythian Ethnography to Aryan Christianity
- Chapter 9 Herodotus and the 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
- Chapter 10 Herodotus’s Travels in Britain and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages of Herodotus Cited
- General Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2020
- Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Herodotus in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Conventions and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 From Ethnography to History
- Chapter 2 ‘Romantic Poet-Sage of History’
- Chapter 3 Herodotus as Anti-classical Toolbox
- Chapter 4 George Grote and the ‘Open-hearted Herodotus’
- Chapter 5 Imagining Empire through Herodotus
- Chapter 6 Two Victorian Egypts of Herodotus
- Chapter 7 Of Europe
- Chapter 8 From Scythian Ethnography to Aryan Christianity
- Chapter 9 Herodotus and the 1919–1922 Greco-Turkish War
- Chapter 10 Herodotus’s Travels in Britain and Beyond
- Bibliography
- Index of Passages of Herodotus Cited
- General Index
Summary
At least since the best-known attempt to locate the ‘place of Herodotus in the history of historiography’ – that of Arnaldo Momigliano, now more than sixty years ago – the story of Herodotus’s afterlife has tended to be told in linear terms. Herodotus had barely laid down his pen before Thucydides began highlighting his shortcomings. From that point on, the Father of History was ‘cut off from the stream of ancient historiography’, admired for his style rather than his reliability. ‘Defeated in antiquity’, however, Herodotus ‘triumphed in the sixteenth century’. Ethnography came back into vogue following the ‘discovery’ of the Americas and, as the explorers of the New World reported customs even more extraordinary than those described in the Histories, Herodotus was vindicated.
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