The Narrator
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 15 anchored passages
I · Herodotus · an individualist · my · the narrator
spoken of as
1 expressionHerodotus“the narrator”1 mention
The Histories (Greek)
The chains in which they were bound were still preserved in my day, hanging up at the temple of Athena Alea.
in the texts
Law in a Free State
The first-person narrator, a self-described individualist who wanders through town and country encountering episodes that test his creed.
My last admission was followed by a series of grunts at intervals' of about half a minute, and at last with a zeal and earnestness which he had not yet exhibited, and in a louder key than heretofore, Lord Brownmead turned upon me with this query:
I put on my hat and sallied forth into the square with a heavy heart full of the difficulties of my individualist creed.
” I ejaculated, “you do not mean to say you approve of State-regulated education?
The Histories
The first-person narrating voice of the Histories, who repeatedly interjects judgments, autoptic notes, and disagreements with popular tradition.
The chains in which they were bound were still preserved in my day, hanging up at the temple of Athena Alea.
When this offer was accepted by Pisistratus, who agreed on these terms with Megacles, they devised a plan to bring Pisistratus back which, to my mind, was so exceptionally foolish that it is strange (since from old times the Hellenic stock has always been distinguished from foreign by its greater cleverness and its freedom from silly foolishness) that these men should devise such a plan to deceive …
Both of these were until my time at Thebes, in the Theban temple of Ismenian Apollo.