The Logos of Helen in Herodotus (2.112-120): A reading in the light of authority-affirming strategies
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Herodotus, Historiography, authority, Ancient History, RhetoricAbstract
This article aims to investigate, in Logos of Helen (Histories 2.112-120), the strategies used by Herodotus to assert his authority as a writer and thinker. Inserted in a context in which poetry was still the discourse of authority par excellence, Herodotus had to affirm the veracity of his work. Deprived of the value of truth inherent in the song inspired by the muses, which Homer and other archaic poets used, the historiographer had to found the foundations of truth on which his work was based. The detailed reading of Logos of Helen makes possible to observe, in a privileged way, how the historiographer uses rhetoric, narratives, dialogues with Homeric poetry and with the traditional Greek thought for, intertwined with his historiographic method and with the narration of Histories itself, constructs his authority.
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