Herodotos a jeho Dejiny alebo o význame skúmania minulosti
| Title in English | Herodotus and His Histories, or On the Importance of Studying the Past |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | The chapter examines Herodotus’s work in the context of his own life and his reflections on the importance of studying the past. It analyzes several episodes from his work to demonstrate the forms and challenges of investigating the past, as well as their evidential value. It presents Herodotus not only as a historian in the sense of his interest in the past, but, in today’s understanding, also as a scholar who crosses disciplinary boundaries and uses the past to explore the limits of human understanding and its interaction with the surrounding world. |
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