Herodotus: The Father of History

"Inquiry" and the Birth of History (1x2)

Data di messa in onda: Mar 22, 2022

Herodotus is not the first Greek to write about the past. What, then, makes him original? How does he explain—in the very first sentence of his work and one that richly rewards close reading—the "what, why, and how" of his monumental effort?