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" Historical references for the Dodecarchy and the rise of Psamtik I in power, establishing the Saitic Dynasty, are recorded in Herodotus Histories, Book II: 151-157.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

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

According to Herodotus, Amasis, was asked by Cambyses II or Cyrus the Great for an Egyptian ophthalmologist on good terms.

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:

As Herodotus himself reveals, Halicarnassus, though a Dorian city, had ended its close relations with its Dorian neighbours after an unseemly quarrel ( I, 144 ), and it had helped pioneer Greek trade with Egypt ( II, 178 ).

According to the Histories of the Greek historian Herodotus, about 600 BC, Necho II undertook to dig a west-east canal through the Wadi Tumilat between Bubastis and Heroopolis, and perhaps continued it to the Heroopolite Gulf and the Red Sea.

Herodotus mentions that the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II ( 610 – 595 BC ) built triremes on the Nile, for service in the Mediterranean, and in the Red Sea, but this reference is disputed by modern historians, and attributed to a confusion, since " triērēs " was by the 5th century used in the generic sense of " warship ", regardless its type.

Also according to Herodotus ( III. 139 ), Darius, prior to seizing power and " of no consequence at the time ", had served as a spearman ( doryphoros ) in the Egyptian campaign ( 528 – 525 BCE ) of Cambyses II, then the Persian Great King.

There, according to Herodotus he visited the Pharaoh of Egypt Amasis II.

Written between the 450s and 420s BC, the scope of Herodotus ' work reaches about a century into the past, discussing 6th-century historical figures such as Darius I of Persia, Cambyses II and Psamtik III, and alludes to some 8th-century ones such as Candaules.

Herodotus, writing about Babylon closest in time to Nebuchadnezzar II, does not mention the Hanging Gardens in his Histories.

* 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

Some of the first historical accounts of Egypt were given by Herodotus, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus and the largely lost work of Manetho, an Egyptian priest, during the reign of Ptolemy I and Ptolemy II in the 3rd century BC.

Thus, a monument dedicated by Cambyses II seems to refute the testimony of Herodotus, who lends the conquerors a criminal attitude of disrespect against the sacred traditions.

* Herodotus, The Histories ( Vol II ).

Herodotus ( II, 143 ) tells a story of a visit by Hecataeus to an Egyptian temple at Thebes.

In particular, the tomb at Pasargadae has almost exactly the same dimensions as the tomb of Alyattes II, father of the Lydian King Croesus ; however, some have refused the claim ( according to Herodotus, Croesus was spared by Cyrus during the conquest of Lydia, and became a member of Cyrus ' court ).

According to Herodotus, Herodotus ), the Egyptian pharaoh Psammetichus II had two children raised in isolation in order to find the original language.

Coxie may also have designed the tapestries for Phillip II's Royal Palace of Madrid depicting episodes of the life of Cyrus II, based on the writing of Herodotus.

The oldest known mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

Italian language | Italian translation of Herodotus ' Histories by Count Matteo Maria Boiardo, published in Venice, Aldine Press in 1502 ( 1533?

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

Herodotus ( Histories iv. 189 ) thought he had identified the source of the ægis in Libya, which was always a distant territory of ancient magic for the Greeks:

* Herodotus, The Histories

* Herodotus, The Histories

The Histories of Herodotus vii. 33-37 and vii. 54-58 give details of building and crossing of Xerxes ' Pontoon Bridges.

Herodotus in his Histories ridiculed the belief that water encircled the world, yet most classicists agree he still believed the earth to be flat because of his descriptions of literal " ends " or " edges " of the earth.

* 440 BC: Herodotus defends the Athenian political freedom in the Histories.

The earliest known critical historical works were The Histories, composed by Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( 484 BC – c.

Herodotus announced the size and scope of his work at the beginning of his Researches or Histories:

Only fragments of the latter's work survive ( and the authenticity of these is debatable ) yet they allow us glimpses into the kind of tradition within which Herodotus wrote his own Histories, as for example in the introduction to Hecataeus's work, Genealogies:

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.

Although The Histories were often criticized in antiquity for bias, inaccuracy and plagiarism — Lucian of Samosata attacked Herodotus as a liar in Verae Historiae and went as far as to deny him a place among the famous on the Island of the Blessed — modern historians and philosophers take a more positive view of Herodotus's methodology, especially those searching for a paradigm of objective historical writing.

Herodotus wrote his Histories in the Ionian dialect yet he was born in Halicarnassus, originally a Dorian settlement.

According to Lucian, Herodotus took his finished work straight from Asia Minor to the Olympic Games and read the entire Histories to the assembled spectators in one sitting, receiving rapturous applause at the end of it.

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 ).

Despite this, The Histories of Herodotus displays many of the techniques of more modern historians.

Ephorus made Homer a younger cousin of Hesiod, Herodotus ( Histories, 2. 53 ) evidently considered them near-contemporaries, and the 4th century BC sophist Alcidamas in his work Mouseion even brought them together for an imagined poetic agon, which survives today as the Contest of Homer and Hesiod.

This family is reasoned to be a pre-Indo-European Mediterranean substratum of the 2nd millennium BC, sometimes referred to as Pre-Greek, and this is supported by confirmation from ancient Greek authors like Herodotus in Histories that the Etruscans were from Lydia ( SW Turkey ).

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, The Histories, Newly translated and with an introduction by Aubrey de Sélincourt, Harmondsworth, England, Penguin Books, 1965.