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

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, 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 implies the Athenians ran the whole distance to the Persian lines, shouting their ululating war cry, " Ελελευ!

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

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.

However, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, a literary critic of Augustan Rome, listed seven predecessors of Herodotus, describing their works as simple, unadorned accounts of their own and other cities and people, Greek or foreign, including popular legends, sometimes melodramatic and naive, often charming-all traits that can be found in the work of Herodotus himself.

Herodotus actually mentions Hecataeus in his Histories, on one occasion mocking him for his naive genealogy and, on another occasion, quoting Athenian complaints against his handling of their national history.

Herodotus claims to be better informed than his predecessors, relying on empirical observation to correct their excessive schematism.

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.

According to Herodotus, the Spartans attributed their conquest of Arcadia to their theft of the bones of Orestes from the Arcadian town of Tegea.

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.

These “ others ” were usually based upon the writings of Herodotus, and later Greek cartographers spatially situated these groups in their maps.

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 ".

Due to the loss of the ability to read Greek, Thucydides and Herodotus were largely forgotten during the Middle Ages in Western Europe, although their influence continued in the Byzantine world.

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.

Herodotus, in his Histories, wrote that the Neuri, a tribe he places to the north-east of Scythia, were all transformed into wolves once every year for several days, and then changed back to their human shape.

In the time of Herodotus, about 450 BC, their judicial functions had been restricted to cases dealing with heiresses, adoptions and the public roads.

Herodotus reports another version, in which Medea and her son Medus fled from Athens to the Iranian plateau and lived among the Aryans, who then changed their name to the Medes.

Herodotus states that in Asia the Ionians kept the division into twelve cities that had prevailed in Ionian lands of the north Peloponnese, their former homeland, which became Achaea after they left.