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Herodotus and the Value of Stories

11 episodes · listening order

This route supports the Dutch vwo Grieks centraal examen 2027, whose set theme, as the syllabus names it, is De waarde van verhalen, the value of stories: what makes an account worth trusting, tested here against myth and eyewitness report. It opens with four introductions to Herodotus as a historian, covering his travels, his methods as an investigator, and the shape of the Histories as a work built from nine books and digression as much as narrative. Three episodes follow directly from Book One: the road to the Persian Wars, Croesus's push into Persian territory, and his meeting with Solon that the syllabus sets as part of the pensum. The route then turns to what Herodotus claims to have seen and learned in Egypt, and to the women he folds into his history alongside its myths. It closes on the case for and against calling him the Father of Lies, and on In Our Time's account of the standard he set for weighing evidence.

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53m330: Herodotus: The Birth of History The Rest Is HistoryPodcast

Part of The Rest Is History

Herodotus, a Greek historian of the 5th century BC born on the western edge of an empire stretching to India, wrote The Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars considered the founding work of History in Western literature.

48mHerodotus: The Father of History The AncientsPodcast

Part of The Ancients · History Hit's interview show; only the Greek episodes are indexed

With Roel Konijnendijk

45mHerodotus w. Dr Oswyn Murray Ithaca BoundPodcast

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Oswyn Murray

Dr Oswyn Murray, Emeritus Fellow at the University of Oxford, discusses the life and writings of Herodotus, the oldest Greek historian whose work survives, who has been called the father of history.

43m36. Herodotus: The Father of History Casting Through Ancient GreecePodcast

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Who Herodotus was, as far as the known information allows, what his Histories covers beyond war, from geography and ethnography to folklore, its division into nine books, and the potential sources he used.

36mHerodotus, Father of Tangents, Asides, and Digressions (Herodotus' The Histories Bk 1, Part 1) Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient MediterraneanPodcast

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Michaela opens Herodotus's Histories, the first history text from Greek antiquity, tracing the beginnings of the Persian Wars through as many tangents as the father of history can manage.

35mA Tale of Two Cities, oh and the Capture of a Third (Herodotus' The Histories Bk 1, Part 2) Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient MediterraneanPodcast

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Herodotus returns to Croesus's mad dash to take on the Persian Empire, tangents included, as book one of the Histories continues toward the capture of a third city.

1h 01mHerodotus and the Presocratics Lesche: Ancient Greece, New IdeasPodcast

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Scarlett Kingsley

Scarlett Kingsley, Associate Professor of Classics at Agnes Scott College, sets Herodotus in the intellectual milieu of the fifth century, reading his account of Solon's meeting with Croesus in the Histories.

1h 30mConversations: There’s Much to Do, and Many Unknowns On the Horizon… Herodotus in Egypt w/ Kate Minniti Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient MediterraneanPodcast

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

With Kate Minniti

Conversations: Kate Minniti joins Liv to explore the weird and wonderful claims the influential Herodotus made about what he saw and learned in Egypt.

30mThey're Not So Awful After All, Ancient Greek Women in Herodotus' History Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient MediterraneanPodcast

Part of Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

Herodotus, the world's first historian, travelled the Greek world recording recent events, folding in famous myths and badass women along the way.

43m37: Herodotus, The Father of Lies Casting Through Ancient GreecePodcast

Part of Casting Through Ancient Greece

Why Herodotus gets called the Father of Lies: the reliability of his wide-ranging sources and reporting, and modern clickbait arguments, often misrepresenting him, on gold-digging ants, griffins and the millions of Persians at Thermopylae.

52mHerodotus In Our TimePodcast

Part of In Our Time · The BBC seminar format; only the Greek episodes are indexed

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