... an historian or a storyteller, we must look at and past Herodotus' preamble, examining the work in its entirety. Looking at the similarities and differences between the nature of history writing and storytelling through their presence in the Histories, will best determine whether or not Herodotus was a true historian. By better understanding where Herodotus might be placed relative to these two ... a narrative history; His work adopts a form somewhere between the previous tradition of epic and the yet non-existent novel, which has led to the understanding of it as a work of creative styl...

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