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Headword:
*(hro/dotos
Adler number: eta,536
Translated headword: Herodotus, Herodotos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Lyxes and Dryo; of Halicarnassus;[1] one of the notables; and he had a brother [called] Theodoros. He resettled in
Samos because of Lygdamis, who was the third tyrant of Halicarnassus after Artemisia: Pisindelis was the son of Artemisia, and Lygdamis the son of Pisindelis.[2] In
Samos he practised the Ionian dialect and wrote a history in nine books, beginning with Cyrus the Persian and Candaules the king of the Lydians. He went back to Halicarnassus and drove out the tyrant; but later, when he saw that he he was the object of spite on the citizens' part, he voluntarily went to
Thurii which was being colonized by Athenians, and after he died there he was buried in the
agora.[3] But some say that he died in
Pella.[4] His books bear the inscription of the Muses.[5]
Concerning
Herodotos, the Transgressor says in a letter:[6] "who, then, does not know what the Ethiopians said about our most nourishing food? They touched a barley-cake and said they were amazed that we lived by eating dung, if the wordsmith of
Thurii can be believed. Those who describe the inhabited world relate that there are races of fish-eaters[7] and flesh-eaters, men who do not dream of our food and diet. If any one of us tries to emulate their diet, he will fare no better than those who take hemlock, aconite, or hellebore."[8]
*(hro/dotos, *lu/cou kai\ *druou=s, *(alikarnaseu/s, tw=n e)pifanw=n, kai\ a)delfo\n e)sxhkw\s *qeo/dwron. mete/sth d' e)n *sa/mw| dia\ *lu/gdamin to\n a)po\ *)artemisi/as tri/ton tu/rannon geno/menon *(alikarnassou=: *pisi/ndhlis ga\r h)=n ui(o\s *)artemisi/as, tou= de\ *pisindh/lidos *lu/gdamis. e)n ou)=n th=| *sa/mw| kai\ th\n *)ia/da h)skh/qh dia/lekton kai\ e)/grayen i(stori/an e)n bibli/ois q#, a)rca/menos a)po\ *ku/rou tou= *pe/rsou kai\ *kandau/lou tou= *ludw=n basile/ws. e)lqw\n de\ ei)s *(alikarnasso\n kai\ to\n tu/rannon e)cela/sas, e)peidh\ u(/steron ei)=den e(auto\n fqonou/menon u(po\ tw=n politw=n, ei)s to\ *qou/rion a)poikizo/menon u(po\ *)aqhnai/wn e)qelonth\s h)=lqe ka)kei= teleuth/sas e)pi\ th=s a)gora=s te/qaptai. tine\s de\ e)n *pe/llais au)to\n teleuth=sai/ fasin. e)pigra/fontai de\ oi( lo/goi au)tou= *mou=sai. peri\ *(hrodo/tou le/gei o( *paraba/ths e)n e)pistolh=|: ti/s ou)=n a)gnoei= to\n *ai)qio/pwn u(pe\r tou= par' h(mi=n trofimwta/tou siti/ou lo/gon; a(ya/menoi ga\r th=s ma/zhs qauma/zein e)/fasan, o(/pws ko/pria sitou/menoi zw=men, ei)/ tw| pisto\s o( *qou/rios ei)=nai logopoio\s dokei=. i)xquofa/gwn de\ kai\ sarkofa/gwn a)nqrw/pwn ge/nh mhd' o)/nar i)do/nta th\n par' h(mi=n di/aitan oi( th\n oi)koume/nhn perihgou/menoi gh=n i(storou=sin: w(=n ei)/ tis par' h(mi=n zhlw=sai th\n di/aitan e)pixeirh/sei, ou)de\n a)/meinon diakei/setai tw=n to\ kw/neion prosenegkame/nwn h)\ th\n a)ko/niton h)\ th\n e(lle/boron.
Notes:
C5 BCE. See generally John Gould in OCD(4) s.v. '
Herodotus(1)'.
[1] Present-day Bodrum, in Turkey.
[2] For Artemisia in
Herodotus' work, see 7.99; 8.68-69, 87-88, 93, 101-3.
[3] According to ancient tradition,
Herodotus was one of the first colonists of
Thurii (in southern Italy).
Stephanus of
Byzantium records the inscription on his grave there (see under "Thourioi"). For the connection with
Thurii, see further
Aristotle,
Rhetoric 3.9 (1409a), and
Plutarch,
De exilio 13 (=
Moralia 604F); and cf. Julian,
Epistle 152 (Bidez-Cumont). On
Herodotus' family, see also
pi 248.
[4] The capital of Macedon.
[5] At some time after
Herodotus' death, editors divided his work into nine books and named them after the nine Muses.
[6] Julian the Apostate,
Epistle 155 (Bidez-Cumont).
[7] For the fish-eaters, see
Herodotus 3.19-25.
[8] cf.
zeta 65.
Truesdell S. Brown, "Early Life of Herodotus," Ancient World 17 (1988) 3-15
John Gould, Herodotus (1989), ch. 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; dreams; food; geography; historiography; history; politics; women
Translated by: Phiroze Vasunia on 21 February 2000@15:38:09.
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