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He criticizes Herodotus in terms similar to those which Plato levied against Homer: his stories, though charming and well-told, are insufficiently edifying. [8] Finally there is the element of wounded regional pride. For the proud Boeotian Plutarch, Herodotus's hostile portrayal of Thebes's role in the Persian Wars justified a harsh critique ...
In spite of these lines of criticism, Herodotus' works were in general kept in high esteem and regarded as reliable by many. Many scholars, ancient and modern (such as Strabo, A. H. L. Heeren, etc.), routinely cited Herodotus. To this day, some scholars regard his works as being at least partly unreliable.
Herodotus [a] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BCE, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
In fact, the ancient historian Herodotus had cosmic significance for the Mystras intellectuals at a time when eschatological beliefs were widespread. Laonikos’ adoption of Herodotus was systematic, thorough and methodical. He adopted the organizational scheme of the ancient historian as well as Herodotus’ approach to source material.
Telesarchus, representing the aristocratic faction, asserted that Maeandrius was "not fit to rule" and accused him of fiscal impropriety. To silence his criticism, Maeandrius arrested him. Nothing further was heard from Telesarchus, but the confrontation causes Maeandrius to become aware of and fear an opposition movement.
The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great, an important adjunct to Plutarch's Life of the great general; On the Worship of Isis and Osiris, a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites; [2] and On the Malice of Herodotus (which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise), [3] in which Plutarch criticizes ...
Since retiring in 2002 he has continued his researches into Greek palaeography, textual criticism and the history of classical scholarship. His edition of Sophocles (with Hugh Lloyd-Jones ) appeared in 1990 in the series of Oxford Classical Texts , his edition of Aristophanes appeared in 2007 also for the OCTs, and a new edition of Herodotus ...
There is an echo here too of the criticism of unresponsive behaviour found in Herodotus. In Mediaeval times a story about a peasant who really had the power to charm fishes to the shore with his harp-playing appeared in the Gesta Romanorum, [10] while dancing fishes figure in a fable by Ivan Krylov. There the king of the beasts has given the ...