Questioning the Authority of Myth in The Histories History can be defined as the “systematic study of and writing about the past” (Cartledge, Paul, The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993). Does this mean anything that happened, or that was believed to have happened, in the past can be recorded as history? Or, does one need proof? In Herodotus’ The Histories, the narrative is arranged in a dramatic form. Modern …showed first 75 words of 1754 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1754 total…his Histories filled with stories and myths, but it was not, in the end, so different from any other historian throughout history--even without raw facts and footnotes. Anyhow, we must remember what Cartledge said: “Whether it is true or not in terms of actual historical fact is beside the point” (Cartledge, 26). Bibliography 1. Cartledge, Paul, The Greeks: A Portrait of Self and Others, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993. 2. Waterfield, Robin, Herodotus’ The Histories, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998.