CLST 100 Lecture Notes - Ephorus, Cyropaedia, Herodotus

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 100
• Professor: Christina Zaccagnino

Document Summary

Nomos = custom, law, culture phusis = nature arete = goodness. Plato: goodness (arete) is knowledge historia = research, inquiry logographoi = historians (with a bit of geography and other subjects) Hekataios from miletos (late 6th c. bce) description of the earth. Herodotos from halikarnassos (c. 480 420 bce) Halikarnassos/halicarnassus is where greek and carian cultures meet. Author of histories, an inquiry of things done by man so that they not be forgotten in time, contemporary records, not history. Thucydides from athens (c. 460 400 bce) Xenophon from athens (c. 428 354 bce) Ephoros from kyme (c. 405 330 bce) From the return of the heraklidai until the siege of perinthos by philip the macedon in 340 bce.