LIVE PRESENTATION
Reyhan Destan

THE “FAIRY TALE LIKE” REALITIES OF HERODOTUS

01st November 2022, at 14.00, Bodrum Chamber of Commerce

Herodotus is the first history writer who did actual research to base his writings on facts and real evidence. However, he did not hesitate to embroider history with fairy tales and folk tales to please the reader. Therefore, he is considered to be a person “in-between” historical writings and tales. Some of the stories in his work are told in a mythological and fairy-tale atmosphere, turning him into “a storyteller”. However, some archeological excavations discovered in the last 25-30 years have proven that even the most tale-like events in his work are either real or close to being real! We will look into the “fairy-tale like” stories in Herodotus’s book with Reyhan Destan.

REYHAN DESTAN (1945, Lüleburgaz)
Graduate from the Naval Academy and the PG University of California, retired naval officer Reyhan Destan has certificates on Defense and Strategic Logistics Systems, Ancient Anatolian cities and Historical Geography. Destan has written articles on historical trade routes, the silk road and the OBOR Project. He is interested in history, medicinal plants and petrology.
He is preparing his book "Deep Anatolia" for publication. As a book lover, his greatest pleasure is to share what he knows and what he has learnt  with his surroundings. He dreams of establishing a “futurism” association in Bodrum.