Amasis worrying that his daughter would be a concubine to the Persian king refused to give up his offspring ; Amasis also was not willing to take on the Persian empire so he concocted a trickery in which he forced the daughter of the ex-pharaoh Apries, whom Herodotus explicitly confirms to have been killed by Amasis, to go to Persia instead of his own offspring.

Herodotus also describes that just like his predecessor, Amasis II relied on Greek mercenaries and council men.

Herodotus also relates the desecration of Ahmose II / Amasis ' mummy when the Persian king Cambyses conquered Egypt and thus ended the 26th Saite dynasty:

Herodotus recounts the story that Cynaegirus, brother of the playwright Aeschylus, who was also among the fighters, charged into the sea, grabbed one Persian trireme, and started pulling it towards shore.

In antiquity, the Greek historian Herodotus mentioned that the world had been divided by unknown persons into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya ( Africa ), with the Nile and the River Phasis forming their boundaries — though he also states that some considered the River Don, rather than the Phasis, as the boundary between Europe and Asia.

But the form of the OHG and Gothic words suggests it is also a borrowing, perhaps indeed directly or indirectly from Greek " ἐλέφας " ( elephas ), which in Homer only meant " ivory ", but from Herodotus on the word also referred to the animal.

He also discusses a story told by Herodotus.

Although Herodotus ' overall emphasis lay on the actions and characters of men, he also attributed an important role to divinity in the determination of historical events.

These oral histories often contained folk-tale motifs and demonstrated a moral, yet they also contained substantial facts relating to geography, anthropology and history, all compiled by Herodotus in an entertaining style and format.

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 ".

In fact Herodotus was in the habit of seeking out information from empowered sources within communities, such as aristocrats and priests, and this also occurred at an international level, with Periclean Athens becoming his principal source of information about events in Greece.

The Suda also informs us that Herodotus later returned home to lead the revolt that eventually overthrew the tyrant.

Herodotus was also known for visiting the various battle sites he wrote about, including the battle of Thermopylae.

Assyrian records claim he punished Judah and then left ( Herodotus also described the invasion ).

Herodotus reported a temple to her in Egypt supposedly attached to a floating island called " Khemmis " in Buto, which also included a temple to an Egyptian god Greeks identified by interpretatio graeca as Apollo.

Plutarch said the inhabitants of Caria carried the emblem of the rooster on the end of their lances and relates that origin to Artaxerxes, who awarded a Carian who was said to have killed Cyrus the Younger at the battle of Cunaxa in 401 B. C " the privilege of carrying ever after a golden cock upon his spear before the first ranks of the army in all expeditions " and the Carians also wore crested helmets at the time of Herodotus, for which reason " the Persians gave the Carians the name of cocks ".

Fables, succinct tales with an explicit " moral ," were said by the Greek historian Herodotus to have been invented in the 6th century BCE by a Greek slave named Aesop, though other times and nationalities have also been given for him.

Herodotus records in his Histories not only the events of the Persian Wars but also geographical and ethnographical information, as well as the fables related to him during his extensive travels.

These historians also admired Herodotus, however, as social and ethnographic history increasingly came to be recognized as complementary to political history.

Another author, Thomas Geoghegan, whose speciality is labour rights, comes down on the side of Herodotus when it comes to drawing lessons relevant to Americans, who, he notes, tend to be rather isolationist in their habits ( if not in their political theorizing ): " We should also spend more funds to get our young people out of the library where they're reading Thucydides and get them to start living like Herodotus — going out and seeing the world.

Epicurus also calls them " the meanings that underlie the words " ( hypotetagmena tois phthongois: semantic substance of the words ) in his letter to Herodotus.

Herodotus also records a Persian commander threatening to enslave daughters of the revolting Ionians and send them to Bactria.

Herodotus ( 1, 23 ) says " Arion was second to none of the lyre-players in his time and was also the first man we know of to compose and name the dithyramb and teach it in Corinth ".

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

He was buried at the royal necropolis of Sais, and while his tomb was never discovered, Herodotus describes it for us:

Herodotus, in Book II of his Histories, describes as a " labyrinth " a building complex in Egypt, " near the place called the City of Crocodiles ," that he considered to surpass the pyramids in its astonishing ambition:

However, in his Histories, ix. 120 – 122, the Greek writer Herodotus describes the execution of a Persian general at the hands of Athenians in about 479 BC: " They nailed him to a plank and hung him up ... this Artayctes who suffered death by crucifixion.

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 ( 7. 64 ) describes them as Scythians, called by a different name:

Herodotus ( IV. 64 ) describes them as Scythians, although they figure under a different name:

Herodotus describes Naxos circa 500 BC as the most prosperous Greek island.

Herodotus describes him as the saver of the Etruscans, because he led them from Lydia to Etruria.

Herodotus, a Greek historian who travelled in Egypt in the 5th century BC, describes Bastet's temple at some length:

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.

Herodotus, writing about 30 to 40 years after the events he describes, did, according to Miller ( 2006 ) in fact base his version of the battle on eyewitness accounts, so it seems altogether likely that Pheidippides was an actual historical figure, although the same source claims the classical author didn't ever in fact mention a Marathon-Athens runner in any of his writings.

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.

There ´ s not much known about Khafra, except the historical reports of Herodotus, who describes Khafra as a cruel and heretic ruler, who closed the Egyptian temples.

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.

Herodotus describes the ' Immortals ' as being heavy infantry led by Hydarnes that were kept constantly at a strength of exactly 10, 000 men.

Herodotus describes their armament as follows: wicker shields, short spears, swords or large daggers, bow and arrow.

Herodotus, in his fifth-century BC Histories, describes the Scythians processing of mare's milk:

Herodotus next describes the spread of the revolt ( thus also in 498 BC ), and says that the Cypriots had one year of freedom, therefore placing the action in Cyprus to 497 BC.

However, the cities that Herodotus describes Daurises as besieging were on the Hellespont, which ( by Herodotus's own reckoning ) did not become involved in the revolt until after Ephesus.

The Persian actions that Herodotus describes at the Hellespont and in Caria seem to be in the same year, and most commentators place them in 497 BC.

Herodotus describes them as the " best and bravest " () among Thebans.

Herodotus describes a story that explains why there were only a few Greek men at the Battle of Thermopylae since " all other men were participating in the Olympic Games " and that the prize for the winner was " an olive-wreath ".