CLST 332 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Alyattes Of Lydia, Higher Education, Upper Class
3 Nov 2017
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The iron age to the end of the persian wars. There are certainly mythical elements to what he says doesn"t discount what the gods say. Admits that the gods interact with the affairs of humans. But he says that the gods aren"t the sole cause of human events. But this is only one piece/tool of his he has other interests and tools. Introduces a standard of evidence for historical claims. Not in the modern sense simply means that he has introduced some standard for some evidentiary points. He wants his points to be proved. Buys into some crazy stories (i. e. lion giving birth to a courtesan) but he has some standard of proof. The way he introduces the persians and phoenicians is problematic. He lumps them all together even though there were hundreds of thousands of them. They likely had different ideas among themselves of what happened. Herodotus can see the greeks as distinct groups of people.
