CLST 200 Lecture 13: CLST 200 Lecture 13

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 200
• Professor: George Bevan

Document Summary

Citizen of helicarnassus in asia minor (ionian greek) Interests much debated, not seen as impartial reporting, or on par with modern ethnographic writing, herodotus writing is in words of tourist, interested in differences from. Greeks, foreign culture does something opposite of what. Egyptian women going to market not men. More, interested in word nomos: broader then simple translation of law, tradition, culture, history, custom, complex of ideas. Interested in what the nomoi of these cultures are. Sticking to ones nomoi is best course of action, switching puts one in precarious position. Also surface differences as tourist, divides people into soft and hard people. Persians: to start off a hard person (& scythians & Spartans)- eat meat, not a lot of luxury, hard bests and soft cultures like egyptians. Paradigm is his own, who themselves famed for luxury, trade contact with near east and from beginning, wealthy through trade.