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 ).

Herodotus records in his Histories not only the events of the Persian Wars but also geographical and ethnographical information, as well as the fables related to him during his extensive travels.

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

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 population was very small in ancient times, and except for the brief mentions in Herodotus and Pausanias, has left little or no record in the history of those times.

According to Herodotus, the Persians met and defeated a small Lycian army in the flatlands to the north of the city.

It begins at a small crater 25 km north of the rim, then winds across the surface to the north, before turning northwest and finally to the southwest before coming to a precipitous end at the edge of the raised shelf on which Herodotus is located.

Schiaparelli is a small lunar crater located on the western part of the Oceanus Procellarum, to the west of the crater Herodotus.

According to Herodotus, the equipment of the Moschoi was similar to that of the Tibareni, Macrones, Mossynoeci and Mardae, with wooden caps upon their heads, and shields and small spears, on which long points were set.

To the northeast of Raman is the small peak named Mons Herodotus.

Moreover, said Herodotus, " o girl shall wed till she has killed a man in battle ".

Almásy fell in love with Katharine Clifton one night as she read from Herodotus ' histories aloud around a campfire.

He falls in love with her voice as she reads Herodotus.

In this connection Herodotus ( v. 12 ) tells the story that Darius, having seen at Sardis a beautiful Paeonian woman carrying a pitcher on her head, leading a horse to drink, and spinning flax, all at the same time, inquired who she was.

For the origin of Cyrus the Great's mother, Herodotus identifies Mandane of Media, and Ctesias insists that she is fully Persian but gives no name, while Nicolaus gives the name " Argoste " as Atradates's wife ; whether this figure represents Cyno or Cambyses's unnamed Persian queen has yet to be determined.

According to Herodotus ( Histories ii-100 ), she invited the murderers of her brother, the " king of Egypt ", to a banquet, then killed them by flooding the sealed room with the Nile.

He then consulted Delphi before attacking Persia, and according to Herodotus was advised, " If you cross the river, a great empire will be destroyed.

According to Herodotus, Amasis thought Polycrates was too successful, and advised him to throw away whatever he valued most in order to escape a reversal of fortune.

Herodotus reported a temple to her in Egypt supposedly attached to a floating island called " Khemmis " in Buto, which also included a temple to an Egyptian god Greeks identified by interpretatio graeca as Apollo.

Athenaeus, another 200 years later, calls the courtesan Doricha and maintains that Herodotus had her confused with Rhodopis, another woman altogether.

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.

Her name is found in the Histories of Herodotus and writings of Manetho, but her historicity is uncertain.

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

A great festival, called the Feast of Lamps, was held annually in her honor and, according to Herodotus, her devotees burned a multitude of lights in the open air all night during the celebration.

The Greek historian, Herodotus ( c. 484-425 BC ), noted that the Egyptian citizens of Sais in Egypt worshipped Neith and that they identified her with Athena.

Herodotus ascribes to her the artificial banks that confined the Euphrates and knows her name as borne by a gate of Babylon.

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 ).

Herodotus calls her Athena and says that her priestess would grow a beard when disaster pended.

According to Herodotus ( Histories, Books 7 and 8 ), Artemisia was Halicarnassian on her father Lygdamis ' side and Cretian on her mother's.

In contrast, Herodotus had a favourable opinion of Artemisia, despite her support of Persia, possibly because he too came from Halicarnassus.

She was well read in the works of Greek and Roman scholars such as Pliny and Herodotus and was diligent in her study of religion.

She also wants to avoid the marriage that her parents, Herodotus and Hecuba, have arranged for her with her childhood friend Perdicas.