On the Malice of Herodotus
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On the Malice of Herodotus
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On the Malice of Herodotus or On the Malignity of Herodotus is an essay by Plutarch criticizing the historian Herodotus for all manner of prejudice and misrepresentation in the latter's Histories. It has been called "the first book review" and, more tellingly, "the first instance in literature of the slashing review." The 19th-century English historian George Grote considered this essay a serious attack upon the works of Herodotus, and contrasts Herodotus's journalistic openness to events to Plu
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Essay by Plutarch
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