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Herodotus’ Perspective on the Persian Empire

Publication date: 21.10.2022

ELECTRUM, 2022, Volume 29, pp. 23 - 37

https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.22.003.15773

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Thomas Harrison
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1968-9859 Orcid
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Herodotus’ Perspective on the Persian Empire

Abstract

This paper reviews the different models commonly used in understanding Herodotus’evidence on the Achaemenid Persian empire. It suggests that these approaches—for example, the assessment of Herodotus’accuracy, of the level of his knowledge, or of his sympathy for the Persians—systematically underestimate the complexity of his (and of the Greeks’) perspective on the Persian empire: the conflicted perspective of a participant rather than just a detached observer.

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Information: ELECTRUM, 2022, Volume 29, pp. 23 - 37

Article type: Original article

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1968-9859

Thomas Harrison
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1968-9859 Orcid
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University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Published at: 21.10.2022

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