Aristotle refers to a version of The Histories written by ' Herodotus of Thurium ' and indeed some passages in the Histories have been interpreted as proof that he wrote about southern Italy from personal experience there ( IV, 15, 99 ; VI 127 ).

Herodotus ( 1. 7 ) refers to a Heraclid dynasty of kings who ruled Lydia, yet were perhaps not descended from Omphale, writing, " The Heraclides, descended from Heracles and the slave-girl of Iardanus ...." Omphale as slave-girl seems odd.

The ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, refers to firths repeatedly in his account of the Battle of Salamis in his 8th book of The Histories.

Herodotus refers to the last king of Babylon as Labynetos and claims that this was also the name of his father.

Josephus refers to the queen at the time ( corresponding to the Nitocris of Herodotus ) as the grandmother of Belshazzar which corroborates the alternative view that the younger " Labynetos " ( son of Nitocris ) is Nabonidus.

Herodotus refers to it as ancient Greek: Hypanis.

According to the Greek author Herodotus, Cyrus treated Croesus well and with respect after the battle, but this is contradicted by the Nabonidus Chronicle, one of the Babylonian Chronicles ( although whether or not the text refers to Lydia's king or prince is unclear ).

Herodotus, for example, refers to the ancient Egyptian gods Amon, Osiris and Ptah as " Zeus ," " Dionysus " and " Hephaestus.

The Histories of Herodotus, written in 424 BC, refers to " casks of palm-wood filled with wine " being moved by boat to Babylon, though clay vessels would also have been used.

According to the famous historian Herodotus, in one of his chapters refers that Homer lived and wrote his marvelous epics in this village.

The exact date of the foundation of Canopus is unknown, but Herodotus refers to it as an ancient port.

Similarly, Herodotus refers to a time when the " Athenians were just beginning to be counted as Hellenes ", implying that a formerly Pelasgian group over time acquired " Greekness ".

Although Turkic languages may have been spoken as early as 600 BC, the first mention of the ethnonym " Turk " may date from Herodotus ' ( c. 484-425 BCE ) reference to " Targitas "; furthermore, during the first century CE, Pomponius Mela refers to the " Turcae " in the forecasts north of the Sea of Azov, and Pliny the Elder lists the " Tyrcae " among the people of the same area.

Bhuridatta Jataka refers to the Kambojas as following the non-Aryan ( i. e. Zoroastrian ) customs like killing poisonous insects, moths, snakes and worms — which is recognized as Zoroastrian from passages in Mazdean books like the Vedevat and from the remarks of Herodotus.

Herodotus describes how Amasis II would eventually cause a confrontation with the Persian armies.

Herodotus records that 6, 400 Persian bodies were counted on the battlefield, and it is unknown how many more perished in the swamps.

He does not know when or how, but like Herodotus he blames the poets.

Herodotus in Book 1, Chapter 68, describes how the Spartans uncovered in Tegea the body of Orestes which was seven cubits long — around 10 feet.

Herodotus discussed how members of each city would collect their own dead after a large battle to bury them.

As to how Agron gained the kingdom from the older dynasty descended from Lydus son of Atys, Herodotus only says that the Heraclides, " having been entrusted by these princes with the management of affairs, obtained the kingdom by an oracle.

The historian Herodotus describes how the Athenian general Miltiades deployed his forces of 10, 000 Athenian and 900 Plataean hoplites in a U formation, with the wings manned much deeper than the center.

Thebes ' exact placement was unknown in medieval Europe, though both Herodotus and Strabo give the exact location of Thebes and how long up the Nile one must travel to reach it.

) Herodotus, in The History of Herodotus ( 440 BC ), tells how Leotychides was incriminated by a glove ( gauntlet ) full of silver that he received as a bribe.

Opinions differ however on how best to reconcile Herodotus with the Babylonian sources and an alternative view is that the younger Labynetos is Nabonidus.

Herodotus describes how, on the eve of battle and faced with the formidable Persian expeditionary force, the Athenians had despaired of the Spartans, or indeed anyone else, coming to their aid in what seemed to be impossible odds.

Herodotus relates how all male goats were held in great reverence by the Mendesians, and how in his time a woman publicly copulated with a goat.

It recounts how the priests showed Herodotus a series of statues in the temple's inner sanctum, each one supposedly set up by the high priest of each generation.

The earliest literary reference to a winch can be found in the account of Herodotus of Halicarnassus on the Persian Wars ( Histories 7. 36 ), where he describes how wooden winches were used to tighten the cables for a pontoon bridge across the Hellespont in 480 B. C.

The etiological myth explaining how Athens acquired this name through the legendary contest between Poseidon and Athena was described by Herodotus, Apollodorus, Ovid, Plutarch, Pausanias and others.

*' Lydia between East and West or how to date the Trojan War: a study in Herodotus ' in The ages of Homer: a tribute to Emily Townsend Vermeule ed.

The affinities between it and Hesiod, Herodotus, Manetho, and the Hebrew Bible ( specifically, the Torah and Deuteronomistic History ) as histories of the classical world give us an idea about how ancient people viewed their worlds.

The descriptive history of interpreters in Egypt provided by Herodotus several centuries earlier is typically not thought of as " translation studies "-- presumably because it doesn't tell translators how to translate.

Herodotus notes how the Paeonians, lived in settlements accessible only by boats, settlements which still exist today on the west and the north shores of Dojran Lake, in between the cane zones and the lake itself.

The libretto of Le Roi Candaule was created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, and combined Herodotus and Plutarch's tale of how the throne of King Candaules — ruler of the Kingdom of Lydia — was usurped by the shepherd Gyges by way of Candaules's Queen, Nyssia.

Herodotus reports how the Persians attackers who tried to exploit an unusual retreat of the water were suddenly surprised by " a great flood-tide, higher, as the people of the place say, than any one of the many that had been before ".

Later, Herodotus ( Histories i. 7 ) adds that the " Meiones " were renamed Lydians after their king, Lydus ( Λυδός ), son of Atys, in the mythical epoch that preceded the rise of the Heracleid dynasty.

Herodotus relates also the Lydian tradition: " yet the Lydians claim a share in the latter name, saying that Asia was not named after Prometheus ' wife Asia, but after Asies, the son of Cotys, who was the son of Manes, and that from him the Asiad clan at Sardis also takes its name ".

According to Herodotus, the Carians were named after an eponymous Car, a legendary early king and a brother of Lydus and Mysus, also eponymous founders respectively of Lydians and Mysians and all sons of Atys.

Herodotus in his Histories wrote that the Mysians were brethren of the Carians and the Lydians, originally Lydian colonists in their country, and as such, they had the right to worship alongside their relative nations in the sanctuary dedicated to the Carian Zeus in Mylasa.

Herodotus ' assertion ( Histories i. 7 ) that the Lydians were first so named after their king, Lydus ( Λυδός ).

But the confusion of the Leleges with the Carians ( immigrant conquerors akin to Lydians and Mysians ) which first appears in a Cretan legend ( quoted by Herodotus, but repudiated, as he says, by the Carians themselves ) and is repeated by Callisthenes, Apollodorus and other later writers, led easily to the suggestion of Callisthenes, that Leleges joined the Carians in their ( half legendary ) raids on the coasts of Greece.

Herodotus states that the Lydians " were the first men whom we know who coined and used gold and silver currency ".

The convenience of the " invention " was so obvious as to justify the statement of Herodotus that the Lydians were the first nation of shopkeepers.

In this passage the writer uses scare quotes around the word invention to express the opinion that Herodotus is incorrect in ascribing to the Lydians the role of the inventors of coinage.

But according to the better authority of Herodotus ( i. 94 ) and Xenophanes of Colophon, the Lydians were the first coiners of money at the beginning of the 7th century, and, further, the oldest known Aeginetan coins are of later date than Pheidon.