Edwards notes that the pyramid had " almost certainly been opened and its contents plundered long before the time of Herodotus " and that it might have been closed again during the Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt when other monuments were restored.

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 notes that this trail was well-known to the locals, who had used it in the past for raiding the neighbouring Phocians.

Herodotus notes that two other men were accused of betraying this trail to the Persians: Onetas, a native of Carystus and son of Phanagoras ; and Corydallus, a native of Anticyra.

A. D. Godley asserted in her notes on Herodotus, that the island is located near the coast of northern Africa.

Among his numerous contributions to Greek literature may be mentioned, Hephaestion's Encheiridion ( 1810 ); Poëtae Graeci minores ( 1814 – 1820 ); Stobaeus ' Florilegium ( 1822 ); Herodotus, with variorum notes ( 1824 ); Suidas ' Lexicon ( 1834 ); Etymologicum Magnum ( I848 ).

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.

Miller notes that ancient authorities ( e. g. Herodotus 3. 111 ) state that cinnamon and cassia bark were harvested in Africa, yet these species until recently were found only in Southeast Asia.

Greek historian Herodotus ( – BC ) notes that the Caucasian highlanders of that time, were brilliant knitters and embroiders of their dress or Chokha, which wore out but never faded from frequent usage.

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

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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 ".

Dojran, primarily Star Dojran, was first settled in pre-historic times, and the first written record of the city was in the 5th century in which the Greek historian Herodotus, wrote about the Paeonians, ancient Thraco-Illyrian people, who started and expanded the city.

Both Strabo and Thucydides recount that Emathia and Pieria were mostly occupied by Thracians ( Pierians, Paeonians ) and Bottiaeans, as well as certain Illyrian and Epirote tribes, whilst Herodotus relates that the Bryges were co-habitants with the Macedonians prior to their bulk migrating to Asia Minor.

Herodotus (; Hēródotos ) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria ( modern day Bodrum, Turkey ) and lived in the fifth century BC ( 484 – 425 BC ).

Herodotus reveals affection for the island of Samos ( III, 39-60 ) and this is an indication that he might have lived there in his youth.

Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus ' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC ; while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC.

One remarkable commentary of Herodotus on Heracles is that he lived 900 years before himself ( c. 1300 BCE ).

Since Herodotus says elsewhere that Phrygians anciently lived in Europe where they were known as Bryges, the existence of the garden implies that Herodotus believed Midas lived prior to a Phrygian migration to Anatolia.

Herodotus reports that the Phoenicians called the island Callista and lived on it for eight generations.

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 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, one of the foremost biographers in antiquity who lived in Greece at the time when the Macedonian king Alexander I was in power, recorded:

Two of the most influential historians who had yet lived flourished during Greece's classical age: Herodotus and Thucydides.

Herodotus and other classical historians listed quite a number of tribes who lived near the Scythians, and presumably shared the same general milieu and nomadic steppe culture, often called " Scythian culture ", even though scholars may have difficulties in determining their exact relationship to the " linguistic Scythians ".

# Thirdly ( 4. 11 ), in the version which Herodotus said he believed most, the Scythians came from a more southern part of Central Asia, until a war with the Massagetae ( a powerful tribe of steppe nomads who lived just northeast of Persia ) forced them westward.

Herodotus, who lived one hundred years after Milo's death, says the wrestler accepted a large sum of money from the distinguished physician Democedes for the privilege of marrying Milo's daughter.

Herodotus, who gives the account of Cadmus, estimates that Semele lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around 2000 B. C.

Herodotus estimates that Cadmus lived sixteen hundred years before his time, or around 2000 BC.

One remarkable commentary of Herodotus on Pan is that he lived 800 years before himself ( c. 1200 BCE ), this being already after the Trojan War.

Herodotus said that Homer lived 400 years before his own day, which would place Homer about 850 BC ; but other ancient sources gave dates much closer to the Trojan War.

Herodotus also says that Gordias ' son Midas had a garden in Macedonia, which could imply that Herodotus believed Gordias lived before the legendary Phrygian migration to Anatolia.