1. Herodotus: Historian or Storyteller?
... king is informative of a gravitation towards impartial history. On the other hand, Herodotus does not treat divine intervention and the decision of the gods as being quite so fundamental to his Histories as folktale does. While Croesus' suffering is implied to be on account of his hubris in ... that Croesus wanted to check the expansion of Cyrus' empire, avenge the death of Astyages, and to annex Cappadocia (ΒΆ 1.46, 73). Moreover, gods never appear in the flesh in the Histories, as they do in Homer. The Persian fleet, when sailing round Euboea, is harried by an observed ... , the Hell...
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