HiST 201 Essay 2: What was History to the First Historians? Comparing Herodotus and Thucydides

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Start here! We are now back with in 479 BCE, with Herodotus' description of the battle of Salamis in which the Athenians played a pivotal role.

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This is the same Themistocles who correctly interpreted the oracle in book 7, and who after the war was exiled by the Athenians and fled to the Persian Empire.

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Artemisia was a Greek woman and the queen of Halicarnassus, the same city that Herodotus came from. Perhaps we see a hint of hometown pride in this passage.

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Herodotus often uses "Medes" interchangeably for "Persians."

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Stop here and skip to the passage from book 9!

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Resume here! The background is that the Greeks are chasing Xerxes and the Persians out of Greece and western Anatolia.

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Here Herodotus brings us back to the time of Cyrus with a story about Artembares and Cyrus.