An exploration for the Characteristics of Amphibious Nature of Gods and Humans and Moral Implication of the Divine Historical View—— Based on the oracles in The Histories

Abstract

Herodotus, as the "father of history" in the West, had an influential work called The Histories. The divine historical view of Herodotus had diversified characteristics, among which the amphibious nature of gods and humans was the key core, and the moral implication was the important purpose. The divine historical view of Herodotus had the typical characteristics of the integration and interweaving of gods and mans, which was highly consistent with the characteristics of the theory of "homomorphism between gods and humans" in the ancient Greek religion. The historical and cultural logic formed by it could be analyzed from Herodotus's religious concept and Ionian scepticism at that time. At the same time, The divine historical view of Herodotus had a strong moral implication, and contained theistic thought and non-theistic thought, as well as the principle of compensation.