ANTH 3030 Final: exam prep note 2 CS.doc
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Herodotus, the father of history" (cicero, de legibus 1. 1. 5) Source: the suda (late byzantine encyclopaedia); born c. 484, died after 430, but before 413 during the peloponnesian war, which he mentions (9. 73, p. 584). Greek literature before herodotus: oral poetry (homer); logographoi (or logopoioi): writers of genealogies, guidebooks, travelogues, kinglists, city foundation accounts; major predecessor was hecataeus of miletus (periegesis ges or journey around the world), charon of lampsacus, Dionysius of miletus; note the beginnings of philosophy in ionia are contemporary: anaximenes, Muthos a tale, story, fable, something delivered by word of mouth, talk, conversation; later, refers to a poetic or legendary tale as opposed to the historical account. Historia enquiry; knowledge or information obtained by enquiry; written account of one"s enquiries; narrative, story, account; best, perhaps, researches . Not necessarily an enquiry into the past, though . Tyre (2. 44, p. 113); egypt (2. 29, p. 105; 2. 99, p.
