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:

Herodotus ' description of the Egyptian Labyrinth, in Book II of The Histories, inspired some central scenes in Bolesław Prus ' 1895 historical novel, Pharaoh.

* Herodotus, Book VIII ( 1939 )

They are first mentioned in the writings of the Ancient Greeks, in Herodotus ( Histories Book IV XCIII: " the noblest as well as the most just of all the Thracian tribes ") and Thucydides ( Peloponnesian Wars, Book II: " border on the Scythians and are armed in the same manner, being all mounted archers ").

* Herodotus, Histories, Book IV – translated by Rawlinson, 1942 edition

* Herodotus, Histories, Book II.

Herodotus reports the campaign of the pharaoh in his Histories, Book 2: 159:

Histories, History of Herodotus, Book IV.

The relevant passage of Herodotus ( Histories, Book VI, 105 ... 106 →) is:

* Herodotus, The Histories, Book Six, section 108-111.

Margaret Frazer is a Herodotus award winner, two-time Minnesota Book Award nominee, and two-time Edgar award finalist.

" Historical references for the Dodecarchy and the rise of Psamtik I in power, establishing the Saitic Dynasty, are recorded in Herodotus Histories, Book II: 151-157.

Other works he wrote include Against Herodotus, The Sacred Book, On Antiquity and Religion, On Festivals, On the Preparation of Kyphi, and the Digest of Physics.

Herodotus, Book 3, 91.

However from the Histories of Herodotus, Herodotus, Book 3, 91., it is clear that a tribe by the name of SattaGydae ( or Sattagudai ) were already settled in the area around current day Ghor in Afghanistan and paid as tribute coinage and materials to the Greeks when they subjugated these areas:

The term originates from accounts in Herodotus ' The Histories ( Book 5, 92f ), Aristotle's Politics ( 1284a ), and Livy's History of Rome, Book I.

Herodotus, The Histories, Book 5, 92-f:

A century or more earlier than Theocritus, Herodotus in his Book IX mentions an Athenian councillor in Salamis, " a man named Lycidas " who, in proposing to the much put upon Greeks as a whole ( put upon by the Persian king Xerxes ), that they should entertain a compromise of their freedoms as suggested by the king and his ambassadors, who at that time had all Hellas in grip, or so they thought, that the king's proposals should be ' submitted for approval to the general assembly of the people '.

* Alan B. Lloyd, Herodotus Book II, Introduction, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975.

Numerous ancient texts, such as the Rig Veda, composed before 1200 BCE, ( e. g. in 4. 25. 7c ), and Herodotus in his Histories composed circa 450 BCE which mentions the Pashtuns as " Paktyakai " ( Book IV v. 44 ) and as the " Aparytai " = Afridis ( Book III v. 91 ) in what is now Afghanistan and Pakistan, yet no sources before the conversion of the Pashtuns to Islam mention any Israelite or Jewish connection, nor is the Eastern Iranian language of the Pashtuns taken into account when examining the claims of Hebrew ancestry.

His oracular shrine in Abae in Phocis, where he bore the toponymic epithet Abaeus (, Apollon Abaios ) was important enough to be consulted by Croesus ( Herodotus, 1. 46 ).

For example, the story of the Amazons settling with the Scythians ( Herodotus Histories 4. 110. 1-117. 1 ).

According to the Bauer-Danker Lexicon, the noun ίδιωτής in ancient Greek meant " civilian " ( ref Josephus Bell 2 178 ), " private citizen " ( ref sb 3924 9 25 ), " private soldier as opposed to officer ," ( Polybius 1. 69 ), " relatively unskilled, not clever ," ( Herodotus 2, 81 and 7 199 ).

The distinction between a formally polite greeting and an obeisance is often hard to make ; for example, proskynesis ( Greek for " moving towards ") is described by the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who lived in the 5th century BC in his Histories 1. 134:

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 says that Satrapy 1 ( the satrapies were numbered ) consisted of Ionia, Magnesia, Aeolia, Caria, Lycia, Milya, and Pamphylia, who togther paid a tax of 400 silver talents.

Old temples were restored ; new edifices of incredible magnificence were erected to the many gods of the Babylonian pantheon ( Diodorus of Sicily, 2. 95 ; Herodotus, 1. 183 ).

Herodotus presents the Lydian accounts of the conversation with Solon ( Histories 1. 29 -. 33 ), the tragedy of Croesus ' son Atys ( Histories 1. 34 -. 45 ) and the fall of Croesus ( Histories 1. 85 -. 89 ); Xenophon instances Croesus in his panegyric fictionalized biography of Cyrus: Cyropaedia, 7. 1 ; and Ctesias, whose account is also an encomium of Cyrus.

* Herodotus ' account of Croesus ( from the Perseus Project ): see 1. 6-94 ; contains links Croesus was the son of Alyattes II and continued the conquest of Ionian cities of Asia Minor that his father had begun to both English and Greek versions

Herodotus ( 4. 45. 1 ) records the tradition that the continent Asia was named after Asia whom he calls wife of Prometheus rather than mother of Prometheus, perhaps here a simple error rather than genuine variant tradition.

According to Herodotus ( 1. 193 ), wheat commonly returned two hundredfold to the sower, and occasionally three hundredfold.

* Herodotus, 1. 176

The name " Crimea " is traceable to the Crimean Tatar word qırım ( my steppe, hill ), and the peninsula was known as Taurica, ( Peninsula ) of the Tauri, in antiquity ( Strabo 7. 4. 1 ; Herodotus 4. 99. 3, Amm.

Penia was also mentioned by other ancient Greek writers such as Alcaeus ( Fragment 364 ), Theognis ( Fragment 1 ; 267, 351, 649 ), Aristophanes ( Plutus, 414ff ), Herodotus, Plutarch ( Life of Themistocles ), and Philostratus ( Life of Appollonius ).

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.

( Herodotus 1. 18 ).

AD Godley ( 1920 ), Herodotus 1.

Both Xenophon ( Cyropaedia, 7. 5. 28-30 ) and Herodotus ( The Histories, 1. 191 ) recount the fall of Babylon to Cyrus the Great, yet neither of these writers give the name of the king of Babylon.

Sinope flourished as the Black Sea port of a caravan route that led from the upper Euphrates valley ( Herodotus 1. 72 ; 2. 34 ), issued its own coinage, founded colonies, and gave its name to a red arsenic sulfate mined in Cappadocia, called " Sinopic red earth " ( Miltos Sinôpikê ) or sinople.

The Athenian archons, led by Megacles, took this as the goddess's repudiation of her suppliants and proceeded to stone them to death ( on the other hand, Herodotus, 5. 71, and Thucydides, 1. 126, do not mention this aspect of the story, stating that Cylon's followers were simply killed after being convinced that they would not be harmed ).

Other ancient authors agree with Herodotus ' number of 1, 207.