Connected with this episode, Herodotus recounts a rumour that this manoeuver by the Persians had been planned in conjunction with the Alcmaeonids, the prominent Athenian aristocratic family, and that a " shield-signal " had been given after the battle.

Herodotus visited Egypt in the 5th century BC and recounts a story he was told about vaults under the pyramid built upon an island where lay the body of Cheops.

Herodotus recounts this story, devising a foreign son, Perses, from whom the Persians took the name.

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.

Herodotus recounts that, on the afternoon of the Battle of Plataea, a rumour of their victory at that battle reached the Allies ' navy, at that time off the coast of Mount Mycale in Ionia.

Herodotus, also recounts that Cyrus saw in his sleep the oldest son of Hystaspes ( Darius I ) with wings upon his shoulders, shadowing with the one wing Asia, and with the other wing Europe.

Herodotus recounts that Perdiccas, the founder of the dynasty, was descended from the Heraclid Temenos.

For example, the story of the Amazons settling with the Scythians ( Herodotus Histories 4. 110. 1-117. 1 ).

Nevertheless, there are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story.

Most accounts incorrectly attribute this story to Herodotus ; actually, the story first appears in Plutarch's On the Glory of Athens in the 1st century AD, who quotes from Heracleides of Pontus's lost work, giving the runner's name as either Thersipus of Erchius or Eucles.

The author Julian Symons has commented on writers who see this as a detective story, arguing that " those who search for fragments of detection in the Bible and Herodotus are looking only for puzzles " and that these puzzles are not detective stories.

Both of these accounts draw on the story by Herodotus ( i, 94 ) of the Lydian origin of the Etruscans.

He also discusses a story told by Herodotus.

He suggests that the story told to Herodotus could have been the result of almost two centuries of telling and retelling by Pyramid guides.

Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.

The narrator makes an extended reference to the story of a corrupt Spartan ’ s consultation of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi from Herodotus ( 6. 86 ).

A story recorded by Herodotus, and later by Strabo, Athenaeus, Ovid and the Suda, tells of a relation between Charaxus and the Egyptian courtesan Rhodopis.

Herodotus, the oldest source of the story, reports that Charaxus ransomed Rhodopis for a large sum and that after he returned to Mitylene, Sappho scolded him in verse.

Joel Lidov has criticized this restoration, arguing that the Doricha story is not helpful in restoring any fragment by Sappho and that its origins lie in the work of Cratinus or another of Herodotus ' comic contemporaries.

Herodotus tells the story of a message tattooed on the shaved head of a slave of Histiaeus, hidden by the hair that afterwards grew over it, and exposed by shaving the head again.

Pampinea's clever tale originates in either the Panchatantra, a Sanskrit story from the 4th century AD, or The Histories of Herodotus.

According to these two archaeologists this is the first archaeological evidence of the story reported by Herodotus.

The story as Herodotus tells it was taken up in other literature.

Nevertheless, there are still some historians who believe Herodotus made up much of his story.

Another early mention of a prosthetic comes from the Greek historian Herodotus, who tells the story of Hegesistratus, a Greek diviner who cut off his own foot to escape his Spartan captors and replaced it with a wooden one.

: Herodotus, the original source for this story, does not state the name of the mother of Cleobis and Biton.

Surely much intervening literature regarding Cydippe the priestess of Hera has been lost, since Plutarch was writing about 300 years after Herodotus first told the story.

The story about this treasury in Pausanias bears a great resemblance to that which Herodotus relates of the treasury of the Egyptian king Rhampsinitus.

This story is mentioned by the Tegeans as an example of their people's bravery in book 9 of The History by Herodotus.

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.

A third Midas is said by Herodotus to have been a member of the royal house of Phrygia and the grandfather of an Adrastus who fled Phrygia after accidentally killing his brother and took asylum in Lydia during the reign of Croesus.

Herodotus tells that Adrastus exiled himself to Lydia after accidentally killing his brother.

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.

He contributed articles on Baghdad, the Euphrates and Kurdistan to the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, together with several other articles dealing with the East ; and he assisted in editing a translation of The Histories of Herodotus by his brother, Canon George Rawlinson.

" Herodotus then states that " Cambyses had a dream in which he saw his brother sitting on the royal throne.

) but given to his brother Cambyses ( called Patizeithes by Herodotus ) who is said to have been the real promoter of the intrigue.

According to Herodotus, the Carians were named after an eponymous Car, a legendary early king and a brother of Lydus and Mysus, also eponymous founders respectively of Lydians and Mysians and all sons of Atys.

* Herodotus tells us that the prostitutes of Naucratis were " peculiarly alluring " and relates the story of Charaxus, brother of the poet Sappho, who traveled to Naucratis to purchase ( for a " vast sum ") the freedom of one Rhodopis, a bewitchingly beautiful Thracian slave and courtesan.

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.

According to Herodotus, he was a son of Persian king Darius I by his wife Atossa, and full brother of Xerxes I. Ctesias, who wrongly calls him Achaemenides, states that he was a son of Xerxes, rather than his brother.

An anthropophage or anthropophagus ( from, " people-eater ", plural anthropophagi ) was a member of a mythical race of cannibals described first by Herodotus in his Histories as androphagi (" man-eaters "), and later by other authors, including the playwright William Shakespeare.