Substanceof Lectures On the Ancient Greeks, And On the Revival of Greek Learning in Europe
Substanceof Lectures On the Ancient Greeks, And On the Revival of Greek Learning in Europe
Dalzel, Andrew
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He was the first historian, as Homer was Digitized by VjOOQIC Lect XXX.] HEI10DQTU3. 2BB9 the first poet They both of them at once seized the proper tone of their several arts, which were before unknown, and both carried them to an amazing degree of excellence. According to the best accounts we have, Hero- dotus was bom in the first year of the seventy- fourth Olympiad, that is, 484 years before Christ He himself has informed us, in the beginning of his history, of the place of his birth, which... was Halicarnassus, a city of Caria. He is, indeed, sometimes stiled Herodotus the Thurian, because he went into Italy with a colony of Athenians^ who built the city Thurium, His father, called Lyxus, and his mother Dryo, are said to have been descended of honourable fa- milies. Be that as it will, Herodotus quitted his native country Halicarnassus, and went first to Samos, from whence he travelled into Egypt and Italy, and went over the greatest part of Greece. During his travels he collected the materials of his history ; and having returned to Samos, he there composed the work which he had projected.
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