摘要：This article seeks to deepen our understanding of Herodotus' relationship to Homer as reflected in the prologue, while shedding new light on his relationship to other poets and poetic traditions by focussing on: (1) the poetic device Herodotus uses to struc-ture his opening discussion of the α.τ.η of the Greco-Persian wars (1.1–5), i.e., the pria-mel; and (2) his self-identification, at the end of his prologue, as a poetic sage whose un-derstanding of historical development is informed by a fundamental principle of Greek gnomic wisdom, the transience of human prosperity
