Abstract:
Herodotus is one of the more complex authors of his time. This complexity has become all the more prominent in the last forty years thanks to Herodotean scholarship. This thesis acknowledges this complexity and aims to establish that dike presents a bipartite structural pattern whereby perturbations against dike manifest themselves two-fold within the Histories as both behavioural and physical acts. The study is limited to the Croesus-logos, the opening chapters of the Histories, as a paradigm for the work as whole. This thesis argues that the structural patterns established through the uses of dike and adikia in the Histories is programmatic to the rest of the Histories and helps us better understand Herodotus' forms of thought and methodology.
