Herodotus & Historiography Study Guide

Herodotus

People, places, terms:

Croesus

Cyrus

Lydians

Hellespont

Darius

historiê

cycle of hybris - atê - nemesis

“know thyself”

“de-emphasis of actual events into symptoms of a ... metaphysical tendency” - H. Woods

Stories (know the stories and be able to recall and spell names of the principal characters, starting from these titles)

Snatchings of Women (Io, Europa, Medea, Helen)

Gyges and the wife of Candaules

Arion and the Dolphin

Croesus and Solon

Cleobis and Biton

Atys and Adrastus

Croesus and the testing of the oracles

Experiment of Psammetichos

How Greeks and Egyptians are opposites

The Egyptian account of Helen and Alexander

Xerxes and the crossing of the Hellespont

Xerxes’ dream and Artabanus

Thermopylae and the 300

Themistocles and the battle of Salamis (including the “wooden walls”)

Comparison of the historiography of Herodotus and Thucydides: be prepared to comment briefly, but with detail (specific examples) on the differences between the two