摘要
本文的主旨在于从希腊思想史的角度,阐明希罗多德的突破性成就,并解读其历史书写的特定视角。文章提出,历史学并非自然而然出现的,而是在特定的思想文化背景中产生的。就古代希腊而言,历史学能够从神话史观中独立出来,理性思想方式的确立起了决定性作用。希罗多德发扬赫卡泰俄斯已经表现出来的历史意识,开创了西方历史学。与此同时,通过对异域文明的描述,希罗多德向希腊人展示了一个由希腊人和蛮族人这相互对立的两部分所组成的世界,奠定了影响至今的东西方二分的世界史书写传统。
This paper attempts to assess Herodotus' achievements within the history of Greek thought and to illustrate the perspective from which he writes his Histories.History in the sense of historiography is not a natural result of human civilization,but is created against specific intellectual and cultural background.As far as ancient Greece is concerned,the emergence of rational thinking played a vital role in the creation of history out of myth.Herodotus built on the historical consciousness already manifested in Hecataeus and created the Western historical tradition.Through a narrative of alien cultures,he revealed to the Greeks a world consisted of two opposing parts,Greeks and barbarians,and thus laid the foundation of the tradition of east-west polarization in history writing.
出处
《世界历史》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第4期4-12,共9页
World History
