Hérodote

Greek historian and geographer (c. 484–c. 425 BC) · 484–425 BC

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Herodotus almost always for a single phrase, which he explicitly attributes to him: "Africa will always astonish"1. He quotes it several times between 2017 and 2025, in sessions of different kinds. It appears in a reflection on philosophy between crisis and war2, in a session on worldliness in Clouscard3 and in a talk on Sahelian Africa and imperialism in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger4. It comes back finally in a session titled "The Imaginary Identity"1. The phrase thus moves from one context to another, but the available passages do not say what commentary he makes on it. One other mention does not come from him. During a Musicosophie session on romantic irony and Vinteuil's sonata, it is a question from the audience that brings up Herodotus's accounts of premonitory dreams5. The passages show no sustained reading of the historian's work.

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Herodotus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanised: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, among other subjects such as the rise of the Achaemenid dynasty of Cyrus. He has been described as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero. […]

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