On the Malice of Herodotus
genre: literary criticism
part of: Moralia
part of the series: Plutarchi Chaeronensis quae extant opera
series ordinal: 60
original title: Περὶ τῆς Ἡροδότου κακοηθείας, De malignitate Herodoti
original language: Ancient Greek
On the Malice of Herodotus or On the Malignity of Herodotus (Greek: Περὶ τῆς Ἡροδότου κακοηθείας) 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 ("the honourable frankness which Plutarch calls his 'malignity'") to Plutarch's preferred idealizing and moralizing tone. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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