Herodotus records that 6, 400 Persian bodies were counted on the battlefield, and it is unknown how many more perished in the swamps.

Herodotus records that when heralds of the Persian king Darius the Great demanded " earth and water " ( i. e., symbols of submission ) of various Greek cities, the Athenians threw them into a pit and the Spartans threw them down a well for the purpose of suggesting they would find both earth and water at the bottom, these often being mentioned by the messenger as a threat of siege.

Assyrian records claim he punished Judah and then left ( Herodotus also described the invasion ).

* 449 BC: Herodotus completes his History, which records the events concerning the Persian War.

Herodotus records that as a small girl she advised her father Cleomenes to resist a bribe.

Herodotus also records a Persian commander threatening to enslave daughters of the revolting Ionians and send them to Bactria.

* Herodotus completes his History, which records the events concerning the Persian War.

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.

Herodotus records that an oracle-shrine of Dionysus ( originally a Thracian god whose cult became widespread among the ancient Greeks ) was located atop one of its mountains.

As these accounts contradict each other, due to their roles as propaganda ( the Cyrus Cylinder and Isaiah ; for the latter, see Cyrus in the Judeo-Christian tradition ), oral traditions ( Herodotus and Xenophon ) and conflicting records ( Berossus ), they are quite confusing.

Herodotus records that 6, 400 Persian bodies were counted on the battlefield ; the Athenians lost only 192 men ,, though these numbers are highly doubtful.

Herodotus records in The Histories that Atossa was troubled by a bleeding lump in her breast.

The Greek writer Herodotus in his Histories, records several pontoon bridges.

While Herodotus claimed that the wife of Apries was called Nitetis in ( Greek ), " there are no contemporary references naming her " in Egyptian records.

Finally there is the suggestion that Herodotus records this battle and Egyptian campaign in his writings about the pharaoh Necho, that are included in his famous Histories:

The course of the road has been reconstructed from the writings of Herodotus, archeological research, and other historical records.

" Alluding to the records of Herodotus, Almásy tells Katharine that there was once a certain Arabic people who deemed the " Simoon " so evil that they marched out to meet it ranked as an army, " their swords raised.

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