Herodotus' Histories are the first instance of a narrative history; His work adopts a form somewhere between the previous tradition of epic and the yet non-existent novel, which has led to the understanding of it as a work of creative style, perceived as almost synonymous with fiction. ... This demonstrates Herodotus standing in a murky, grey area between accurate history and the tradition of glorifying the past, from which we might conclude that less attention should to be given to the divisions between the two, as such a medium, was appropriate for engaging a contemporary audience, and...

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