Herodotus · Civilisations

The Invention of History

How Herodotus, by turning ‘inquiry’ into a written record of human deeds, created a wholly new way of preserving and understanding the past.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Herodotus turned historie (inquiry) into the new craft of history. Explain what was genuinely new about it, and one limit of his approach, in your own words.

Leads to Leopold von Ranke.

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