caa a22 4500 388059648 CHVBK 20180307125116.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1998 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0068673500002170 doi S0068673500002170 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0068673500002170 Thomas Rosalind Royal Holloway, University of London Ethnography, proof and argument in Herodotus' Histories [Elektronische Daten] [Rosalind Thomas] One of the most arresting of Herodotus' ethnographic tales is the famous story of Darius' anthropological investigations in which he asked certain Greeks and Indians how they treated the corpses of their parents when they died (3.38). The Greeks burned their dead parents, the Indians ate them. The Persian king asked each group how much money it would take to get them to treat the parental remains as the other group treated theirs. Each group expressed pious horror at the others' customs, each was convinced that their own practice was the proper one, the other outrageous. So, Herodotus concludes, this shows, as Pindar said, that nomos is king of all; if you were to ask any people which customs were the best (τοὺς ϰαλλίστους) of all nomoi, they would certainly choose their own. Copyright © The Author(s). Published online by Cambridge University Press 1998 Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 43(1998), 128-148 0068-6735 43<128 1998 43 CCJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500002170 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068673500002170 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Thomas Rosalind Royal Holloway, University of London NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society Cambridge University Press 43(1998), 128-148 0068-6735 43<128 1998 43 CCJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge