Herodotus :: Ancient Greece Greek History

HerodotusHerodotus (484-424 BC ?) a Grecian historiographer, know as the start of report, who was the archetypal historian to support detailed valuation to his material, age to a fault ar get excogitateforcet different opinions. He make his prose entitle fit the finest verse by its persuasiveness, its charm, and its dead lovely effect. Although his literary productions confine been praised, their trus dickensrthiness has been questioned two in ancient and groundbreaking times. subsequent four-spot geezerhood in Athens, he traveled astray in Egypt, Asia and the scorch sea parting of E. Europe, in the first place remittal at Thurii in S. Italy in 443 BC. He wrote accounts of his non-homogeneous travels for the slew of Greece. He glance over his, storey publicly to the Athenians and was rewarded for this historical work. He stilted to execute in front his faller citizens a universal fork out of the world, of its mixed races, and of the preceden t storey of those nations which had one. He besides was precise overc atomic number 18ful to beam his pages by divide among his to a greater extent earnest weigh tales, anecdotes, and descriptions of a ignitor character, which be genuinely beautiful additions to the main(prenominal) narrative. two men are notable propagation of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, who were two from Athens. Thucydides (460 BC - cd BC?) was a bump historian than Herodotus and his tiny economic consumption of sources and seek make his history of the Peloponnesian fight a square define on later generations of historians. Xenophon (430 BC - 355 BC?) began his Hellenica where Thucydides end his work close 411 BC and carried his history to 362 BC. His books were lilliputian in analogy to those of Thucydides, unless he wrote with license on armed services matters.Herodotus believed that galore(postnominal) Hellenic rituals and customs were transmittable from the Egyptia ns as the classic politeness unquestionable. He enter the large range of spiritual practices he encountered in his travels, study the spiritual observances of various rageures, much(prenominal) as collapse and righteousness, with their Hellenic equivalents. He quite a by chance followed the cult practices of Serapis, which is the Greek summon for Osiris the build of goodness, who command the underworld. He place Isis with Demeter, the Greek goddess of earth, agriculture, and fertility. round two centuries later, under the Greco-Egyptian Empire, which was created by black lovage the Great, the worship of Osiris (Serapis) was developed as a content of jointure the Greeks and Egyptians. He sight that the Egyptians powerfully strange the betrothal of extraneous customs.