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

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 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.

Herodotus also relates the desecration of Ahmose II / Amasis ' mummy when the Persian king Cambyses conquered Egypt and thus ended the 26th Saite dynasty:

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis returned to the Scythians he was killed by his own brother for his Greek ways and especially for the impious attempt to sacrifice to the Mother Goddess Cybele, whose cult was unwelcome among the Scythians.

But its prosperity dates from 544 BC, when the majority of the people of Teos ( including the poet Anacreon ) migrated to Abdera to escape the Persian yoke ( Herodotus i. 168 ).

Leonard Kouba and Judith Muasher write that genitally-mutilated females have been found among Egyptian mummies, and that Herodotus ( c. 484 BCE – c. 425 BCE ) referred to the practice when he visited Egypt.

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.

In the days of the Greek historians Ctesias and Herodotus, 400 BC, Nineveh had become a thing of the past ; and when Xenophon the historian passed the place in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand the very memory of its name had been lost.

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.

He does not know when or how, but like Herodotus he blames the poets.

The first recorded uses of steganography can be traced back to 440 BC when Herodotus mentions two examples of steganography in his Histories.

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.

525 BC, when, according to Herodotus, the tyrant Polycrates of Samos was able to contribute 40 triremes to a Persian invasion of Egypt.

This civilization seems to have fallen into decline by the late Bronze Age, when, according to Herodotus, Macedonian tribes from the north marched into Peloponnese, where they were called Dorians and subjugating the local tribes, settled there.

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:

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Xerxes's first attempt to bridge the Hellespont ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges ; Xerxes ordered the Hellespont ( the strait itself ) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water.

Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarch are the main source of information, yet they wrote about Solon long after his death, at a time when history was by no means an academic discipline.

Lucian wrote that " The people who suffered the greatest torment were those who had told lies when they were alive and written mendacious histories ; among them were Ctesias of Cnidus, Herodotus, and many others.

According to Herodotus, when Anacharsis ( 6th century BCE ) returned to Scythia after traveling and acquiring knowledge among the Greeks, his brother, the Scythian King, put him to death for joining Cybele's cult.

Herodotus does not mention if this Gordias was still alive when Adrastus fled, or if this Gordias or his father Midas ever reigned as ( vassal ) kings.

There have been also discussions about the belief in immortality, due to Herodotus affirmation that the Getae " think that they do not really die, but that when they depart this life they go to Zalmoxis ".

The temple of Astarte, described by Herodotus, was located in the area reserved to the Phoenicians during the time when the Greek author visited the city.

Herodotus mentioned the tradition too, when he has spoke of the Nasamones bringing animal sacrifices to the tombs of holy men.

Herodotus confirms the possibility that the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis were fought shortly after the Olympic Games of that year, and only a few months after these events: " On approach of spring, the sun suddenly quit his seat in the heavens, and disappeared " when Xerxes left Sardis, a few weeks or months before crossing over to Greece.

Herodotus reports that when Darius heard of the burning of Sardis, he swore vengeance upon the Athenians ( after asking who they indeed were ), and tasked a servant with reminding him three times each day of his vow: " Master, remember the Athenians ".

All the incidents subsequent to the appeal of Athens to Sparta are expressly referred by Herodotus to the interval between the sending of the heralds in 491 BC and the invasion of Datis and Artaphernes in 490 BC ( cf.