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Herodotus also describes that just like his predecessor, Amasis II relied on Greek mercenaries and council men.
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 also describes the Scythian Budini as having deep blue eyes and bright red hair.
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 ".

Herodotus and how
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 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.
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 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 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.
As Herodotus refers to how the Lydians fell short in defeating the Persians, it seems clear that partly because of the battle, and having fewer troops than the Persians, it was enough for Croesus to retreat.
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 ".

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