WorkHerodotus

Historiae [The Histories]

Historiae [The Histories] (c. 450–420 BCE)

Herodotus (c. 484–c. 425 BCE) · c. 440 BCE

InferredFuller names 'Herodotus' in the context of Eichhorn's comparison of early historians who disclaim responsibility for all they record. The relevant work is the Histories (Ἱστορίαι), Herodotus's only extant work. Eichhorn invokes Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BCE) as a parallel case for early historians who disclaim full responsibility for their accounts. Fuller records the comparison faithfully.

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Documented 1835–1842

Letters • Notebooks • Manuscripts

Selected engagements, in chronological order.

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed1record

IV. Transcendentalist2records

V. New York

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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1835—

Notebook January 1835

p. 19

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“As Herodotus begs that his / readers will not consider him / responsible for all he relates / so other writers, who treat of / these periods, in silence assume / the same ground.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Notebook January 1835." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (86); Box 6.

Inferred Fuller names 'Herodotus' in the context of Eichhorn's comparison of early historians who disclaim responsibility for all they record. The relevant work is the Histories (Ἱστορίαι), Herodotus's only extant work. Eichhorn invokes Herodotus (c. 484 – c. 425 BCE) as a parallel case for early historians who disclaim full responsibility for their accounts. Fuller records the comparison faithfully.

1841—

Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson

p250

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“Tell Henry Thoreau to write to me when you send me Herodotus”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.

1842—

Letter to Richard F. Fuller

p86

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“I have been reading Herodotus. I find these Greeks, though I can only read them in translations the most healthful and satisfactory companions. I keep one of them by me always now.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

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Pieces with no legible date. They are part of the record but cannot be placed on the lifeline.

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On Xenophon, Cyrus, and Socrates

p12, p13

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“From Herodotus. / There was a melody called Linus after the poet. Athenaeus says it was a very melancholy strain.”

Fuller, Margaret. "On Xenophon, Cyrus, and Socrates." Houghton Library, Harvard University.