ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the idea of historia as understood by Herodotus is expressed and understood by Thucydides as well, but he expresses this idea in a different way. As the author argues previously, Herodotus uses the word historie in his prooemium and elsewhere to express a kind of investigation that displays the juridical and moral expertise of the speaker. Herodotus uses the word historie in his prooemium in such a way as to signal the scientific as well as moral and juridical superiority of his worldview over the worldview of rivals with whom he contrasts himself in the sentence that follows the prooemium. In terms of Bakhtin’s formulation, the author can think of logios as a word that specializes in referring to the “other side” of historie, an exotic side that is seemingly less appropriate to Hellenes and more appropriate to non-Hellenes.
