On the Connotation of Herodotus’s Text

Tracing History in the Form of Performance Narration in the Classical Social Environment

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220110.197How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Herodotus; performance narration; social environment; historical documentary

Abstract

Based on the background that Herodotus was called “Father of History” by later generations, Herodotus was regarded as the first person to describe epic, and his work History was also included as an important document for studying ancient history. This article mainly discusses from what perspective “I” in Herodotus’s texts describes various historical events, and how can we reasonably interpret the self-contradictory views expressed by Herodotus? How did he show the extremely abstract concept of Greek national will in the book, and we will also study the initial question, why did Herodotus write History? Based on the existing research and evaluation of Herodotus by different theories, we should not interpret the text at that time from a modern point of view, but bring it into the social context at that time to interpret it, and strive to restore the true historical events to the greatest extent. As for the description of Egypt, we will also see from the side what Herodotus expects “history” to be, and the great contribution of Herodotus’s History to the modern study of ancient history.

The research significance of this article lies in analyzing Herodotus himself from various perspectives, restoring Herodotus’ ideas, and how the collision between Greek national will and other nationalities affects Herodotus’ description in the book, thus providing a basic method for studying History.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Junjie Qin
AU  - Jinhao Xu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/28
TI  - On the Connotation of Herodotus’s Text
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1049
EP  - 1053
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.197
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.197
ID  - Qin2022
ER  -