Herodotos a jeho Dejiny alebo o význame skúmania minulosti

Title in English Herodotus and His Histories, or On the Importance of Studying the Past
Authors

HABAJ Michal

Year of publication 2025
Type Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
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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