Herodotus described the Egyptians as " the healthiest of all men, next to the Libyans ", due to the dry climate and the notable public health system that they possessed.

Herodotus is somewhat unclear about exactly what happened next.

A fight breaks out between Acharnians for and Acharnians against Dikaiopolis / Telephus / the beggar / Herodotus / Aristophanes and it only ends when the Athenian general Lamachus ( who also happens to live next door ) emerges from his house and imposes himself vaingloriously on the fray.

* Herodotus: The historian, who had been a recent visitor to Athens ( where he gave readings of his history ), he is not named but his work is satirized in the play ( see the next section ).

According to the Greek historians Herodotus and Thucydides, a royal dynasty emerged from among the Odrysian tribe in Thrace around the end of the 5th century BC, which came to dominate much of the area and peoples between the Danube and the Aegean for the next century.

Herodotus wrote: " On the occasion of which we speak when Pheidippides was sent by the Athenian generals, and, according to his own account, saw Pan on his journey, he reached Sparta on the very next day after quitting the city of Athens.

The Pieres were expelled by the Macedonians in the 8th century BC from their original seats, and driven to the North beyond the Strymon river and Mount Pangaeus, where they formed a new settlement. Herodotus mentions that they had mines in Mount Pangaeus and two fortresses, After passing through the aforementioned land, Xerxes next passed the fortresses ( teicheia ) Phagres, fort ( Ancient Greek ," Φάγρης ") and the other Pergamus, fort ( Ancient Greek ," Πέργαμος ").

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 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:

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 ".

The shrine of Dodona was the oldest Hellenic oracle, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus and in fact, dates to pre-Hellenic times, perhaps as early as the second millennium BC when the tradition probably spread from Egypt.

Though later Greeks like Herodotus dated Cadmus's role in the founding myth of Thebes to well before the Trojan War ( or, in modern terms, during the Aegean Bronze Age ), this chronology conflicts with most of what is now known or thought to be known about the origins and spread of both the Phoenician and Greek alphabets.

Herodotus reports that as the Allies approached the Persian camp, rumour spread amongst them of an Allied victory at Plataea ; Diodorus also claims that Leotychides informed the Allies of victory at Plataea before the battle began.

The lower city then caught on fire, Herodotus suggests accidentally, which quickly spread.

According to J. L. Myres, the Sigynnae of Herodotus were " a people widely spread in the Danubic basin in the 5th century BC ," and connected with the iron-working culture of Hallstatt, which produced a narrow-bladed throwing spear, the sigynna spear ( see notice of " Anthropological Essays " in Classical Review, November 1908 ).

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

It has also been suggested ( Herodotus does not explicitly say so ) that Aristagoras incited the whole army to join his revolt, and also took possession of the ships that the Persians had supplied.

Although Herodotus presents the revolt as a consequence of Aristagoras and Histiaeus's personal motives, it is clear that Ionia must have been ripe for rebellion anyway.

Herodotus suggests that the Eretrians supported the revolt in order to repay the support the Milesians had given Eretria some time previously, possibly referring to the Lelantine War.

As Mabel Lang notes, one of the problems with uncovering historical veracity in Herodotus ' account is " that the failure of the revolt not only gave prominence to every aspect and event which would explain, justify or anticipate the disastrous results but also cast into the shade any intentions which deserved a better fate and any temporary successes during the course of the war.

Although Herodotus presents the revolt as a consequence of Aristagoras's personal motives, it is clear that Ionia must have been ripe for rebellion anyway, the primary grievance being the tyrants installed by the Persians.

However, according to Herodotus, Histiaeus was unhappy having to stay in Susa, and made plans to return to his position as tyrant of Miletus by instigating a revolt in Ionia.