Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Greek Historiography, 1998 In Pride Fc, Polis

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: David Lamari

Document Summary

Logographers = the people who would write a speech for you when you were defending yourself at trial. Travel guides (would tell things about other cultures around greece, like what to do when greeting people from other places, what you will see, etc. ) Logographers found an audience with greeks who were interested. Greeks would wonder if other cultures are wrong in what they do (what about marriage, sex, incest?) First discussion about cultural relativeness (what cultures were right and wrong) He ends up in athens (general trend is that ionia is the birthplace and then: blindness 2. Destruction everything/everyone flows to athens, creativity is sparked in the east where older cultures are and then goes to athens to be perfected) Herodotus was the greatest of storytellers and sociological historians. The guy that came after him was a true scientific historian. Herodotus goes to talk to people, travels around the world.