Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).

A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".

* 449 BC: Herodotus completes his History, which records the events concerning the Persian War.

* The History of Herodotus ( 1939 )

Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).

* 449 Herodotus, Greek Historian, writes History of Greco-Persian War from 490-479

This ship model is made of clay and features a distinctive prow shaped like a boar ’ s head that is described by Herodotus in History, and depicted on pottery, coins seals and drinking cups.

* Herodotus completes his History, which records the events concerning the Persian War.

In The History by Herodotus, the Oracle of Delphi foretold that the Spartans could not defeat the Tegeans until they moved the bones of Orestes to Sparta.

Histories, History of Herodotus, Book IV.

* " History " by Herodotus, about Zalmoxis

This story is mentioned by the Tegeans as an example of their people's bravery in book 9 of The History by Herodotus.

А third Tisamenus, the son of Antiochus, is mentioned in book 9 of The History by Herodotus.

The ram deity of Mendes was described by Herodotus in his History as being represented with the head and fleece of a goat: “... whereas anyone with a sanctuary of Mendes or who comes from the province of Mendes, will have nothing to do with ( sacrificing ) goats, but uses sheep as his sacrificial animals ...

His chief publications are his translation of the History of Herodotus ( in collaboration with Sir Henry Rawlinson and Sir John Gardiner Wilkinson ), 1858 – 60 ; The Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, 1862 – 67 ; The Sixth Great Oriental Monarchy ( Parthian ), 1873 ; The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy ( Sassanian ), 1875 ; Manual of Ancient History, 1869 ; Historical Illustrations of the Old Testament, 1871 ; The Origin of Nations, 1877 ; History of Ancient Egypt, 1881 ; Egypt and Babylon, 1885 ; History of Phoenicia, 1889 ; Parthia, 1893 ; Memoir of Major-General Sir HC Rawlinson, 1898.

* The History of Herodotus, translated by George Rawlinson.

Herodotus and Greek History.

Three great historians were Herodotus, regarded as the father of history, known for The Persian Wars ; Thucydides, who generally avoided myth and legend and applied greater standards of historical accuracy in his History of the Peloponnesian War ; and Xenophon, best known for his account of the Greek retreat from Persia, the Anabasis.

Among the most notable were the historians Herodotus ( 484 – 425 ), who described the Greco-Persian Wars ; Thucydides ( 460 – 395 ), who wrote the great History of the Peloponnesian War ; and Xenophon ( 427 – 335 ), who, although sometimes considered a partial and poorly documented writer, in the opinion of historians left a useful source of information about the first years of the 4th century BC.

Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).

The word is attested in Herodotus, who wrote some of the first surviving Greek prose, but this may not have been before 440 or 430 BC.

* 440 BC: Herodotus defends the Athenian political freedom in the Histories.

The earliest written evidence of people living in the territory of the present-day Romania comes from Herodotus in book IV of his Histories written c. 440 BCE.

The first recorded uses of steganography can be traced back to 440 BC when Herodotus mentions two examples of steganography in his Histories.

The Greek historian Herodotus described the hippopotamus in The Histories ( written circa 440 BC ) and the Roman Historian Pliny the Elder wrote about the hippopotamus in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia ( written circa 77 AD ).

In 440 BCE, Herodotus wrote:

Much of the surviving information about the Scythians comes from the Greek historian Herodotus ( c. 440 BC ) in his Histories and Ovid in his poem of exile Epistulae ex Ponto, and archaeologically from the exquisite goldwork found in Scythian burial mounds in Ukraine and Southern Russia.

According to the Histories of Herodotus ( c. 440 BC ), the Cimmerians had been expelled from the steppes by the Scythians.

The Shujing is possibly the earliest narrative of China, and may predate the European historian Herodotus ( about 440 BC ) as a history by many centuries.

Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to the historian Herodotus, who wrote the history of the Persian Wars in his Histories ( composed about 440 BC ).

Herodotus, the Greek historian, wrote of the Scythians in 440 BC: The Scythian soldier scrapes the scalp clean of flesh and softening it by rubbing between their hands, uses it thenceforth as a napkin.

The closet thing to a contemporaneous source for the description of the battle is, as for many events in this time period, the Histories of Herodotus ( written approximately fifty years later, circa 440 BC ).

* Herodotus, Histories, Volumes VI & VIII, " The History of Herodotus " ( translated ), 440 BC, webpage: Fordham-HH.

An early historical mention of rhapsodes occurs in the Histories of Herodotus ( c. 440 BC ).

440 BCE ) Greek Histories of Herodotus record the early Scythians using cannabis steam baths.

The Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt around 440 BC and wrote extensively of his observations of their medicinal practices.

The oldest known mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

The account which Herodotus gives of the hostilities between the two states in the early years of the 5th century BC is to the following effect.

All the incidents subsequent to the appeal of Athens to Sparta are expressly referred by Herodotus to the interval between the sending of the heralds in 491 BC and the invasion of Datis and Artaphernes in 490 BC ( cf.

# Herodotus nowhere states or implies that peace was concluded between the two states before 481 BC, nor does he distinguish between different wars during this period.

It is probable, therefore, that Herodotus is in error both in tracing back the beginning of hostilities to an alliance between Thebes and Aegina ( c. 507 BC ) and in putting the episode of Nicodromus before Marathon.

But its prosperity dates from 544 BC, when the majority of the people of Teos ( including the poet Anacreon ) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( Herodotus i. 168 ).

As early as 490 BC a breed of large horses was bred in the Nisaean plain in Media to carry men with increasing amounts of armour ( Herodotus 7, 40 & 9, 20 ).

Herodotus ( 484 c BC – 425 c BC ) attests that the Gandarian mercenaries ( i. e. Gandharans / Kambojans of Gandari Strapy of Achaemenids ) from the 20th strapy of the Achaemenids were recruited in the army of emperor Xerxes I ( 486-465 BC ), which he led against the Hellas.

Herodotus tells us that c. 482 BC Xerxes I ( the son of Darius ) had two pontoon bridges built across the width of the Hellespont at Abydos in order that his huge army could cross from Persia into Greece.

Early conceptions of ecology, such as a balance and regulation in nature can be traced to Herodotus ( died c. 425 BC ), who described one of the earliest accounts of mutualism in his observation of " natural dentistry ".

Herodotus visited Egypt in the 5th century BC and recounts a story he was told about vaults under the pyramid built upon an island where lay the body of Cheops.

The earliest known critical historical works were The Histories, composed by Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( 484 BC – c.

Herodotus (; Hēródotos ) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria ( modern day Bodrum, Turkey ) and lived in the fifth century BC ( 484 – 425 BC ).

In 425 BC, which is about the time that Herodotus is thought by many scholars to have died, the Athenian comic dramatist, Aristophanes, created The Acharnians, in which he blames The Peloponnesian War on the abduction of some prostitutes-a mocking reference to Herodotus, who reported the Persians ' account of their wars with Greece, beginning with the rapes of the mythical heroines Io, Europa, Medea and Helen.

Herodotus was born at Halicarnassus around 484 BC.

Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), the great Greek historian ; one of the earliest historians whose work survives.

Concerning Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), one of the earliest historians whose work survives, his recount of strange and unusual tales are gripping but not necessarily representative of the historical record.