Question: What were the main themes of Herodotus’ work? What is Herodotus’ perspective on foreign cultures and history?
Answer: One of the themes that permeates throughout the whole of ‘the Histories’ and echoes hauntingly in the offbeat closing anecdote, is the theme of excess. The Greeks were preoccupied with balance and the order of things. Herodotus’ beliefs on the order of the universe and the limits that the ‘jealous and divine’ place on mortal ambitions, radiate throughout ‘The Histories’....(short extract)
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- Subject: History
- Course: Ancient History
- Level: Degree
- Year: 1st
- Mark: 60%
- Words: 2588
- Date submitted: August 31, 2009
- Date written: Not available
- References: Yes
- Document type: Essay*
- Essay ID: 2053
