In fact one modern scholar has wondered if Herodotus left his home in Asiatic Greece, migrating westwards to Athens and beyond, because his own countrymen had ridiculed his work, a circumstance possibly hinted at in an epitaph said to have been dedicated to Herodotus at Thuria ( one of his three supposed resting places ):

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 had expressed doubt concerning the existence of a river in Europe, Eridanos, which flowed into the northern sea, he said, from which amber came.

Plutarch said the inhabitants of Caria carried the emblem of the rooster on the end of their lances and relates that origin to Artaxerxes, who awarded a Carian who was said to have killed Cyrus the Younger at the battle of Cunaxa in 401 B. C " the privilege of carrying ever after a golden cock upon his spear before the first ranks of the army in all expeditions " and the Carians also wore crested helmets at the time of Herodotus, for which reason " the Persians gave the Carians the name of cocks ".

Fables, succinct tales with an explicit " moral ," were said by the Greek historian Herodotus to have been invented in the 6th century BCE by a Greek slave named Aesop, though other times and nationalities have also been given for him.

Except for a few basic generalities, such as that the Lycians probably fought in the Trojan War, nothing mentioned by the works produced under the name of Homer, or the other poets, or anything said by Herodotus about Lycians prior to his own time, is generally granted any historical validity.

# 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.

A modern scholar considers the time-span given by Herodotus to be historically accurate because it fits the 10 years that Solon was said to have been absent from the country.

Herodotus ( Histories 2: 54 – 57 ) was told by priests at Egyptian Thebes in the 5th century BCE " that two priestesses had been carried away from Thebes by Phoenicians ; one, they said they had heard was taken away and sold in Libya, the other in Hellas ; these women, they said, were the first founders of places of divination in the aforesaid countries.

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

Herodotus derived its etymology from a Dorian tribe, the Pamphyloi ( Πάμφυλοι ), who were said to have colonized the region.

According to ancient historians such as Herodotus, they have been said at times to wear a thin tiara over their face, in order to give them a faceless, menacing look, coupled with their ' deathless ' reputation.

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

Herodotus, Strabo, and other classical authors repeatedly mention the Caspians but do not seem to know much about them ; they are grouped with other inhabitants of the southern shore of the Caspian Sea, like the Amardi, Anariacae, Cadusii, Albani ( see below ), and Vitii ( Eratosthenes apud Strabo, 11. 8. 8 ), and their land ( Caspiane ) is said to be part of Albania ( Theophanes Mytilenaeus apud Strabo, 11. 4. 5 ).

Herodotus said that Cyrus defeated the Babylonians outside their city, after which a siege began.

According to Herodotus he was said to have traveled around the world with an arrow symbolizing Apollo, eating no food.

The name is derived from Zeibek warriors of Anatolia, but old folklore said that the name of the dance comes from the words Zei, as a derivative of Greek God Zeus, and the phrygian word bekos, which means bread according to Herodotus.

He is said to have acted as tutor to Polycrates ; that he enjoyed the tyrant's confidence we learn on the authority of Herodotus, who represents the poet as sitting in the royal chamber when audience was given to the Persian herald.

They were said by Herodotus to have been taken and ruined by Croesus in 547 BC.

Mentioned by the classical historians Pliny the Elder, Ptolemy, and Herodotus, the Dards ( Daradae, Daradrae, or Derdae ) are said to be people of Aryan origin who ascended the Indus Valley from the Punjab plains, reaching as far north as Chitrāl.

Herodotus may have placed them in Tunisia and said of them to be sedentary farmers living in settled permanent houses as the later Massylii.

But the form of the OHG and Gothic words suggests it is also a borrowing, perhaps indeed directly or indirectly from Greek " ἐλέφας " ( elephas ), which in Homer only meant " ivory ", but from Herodotus on the word also referred to the animal.

Just as Homer drew extensively on a tradition of oral poetry, sung by wandering minstrels, so Herodotus appears to have drawn on an Ionian tradition of story-telling, collecting and interpreting the oral histories he chanced upon in his travels.

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.

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.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

The second word was Lacedaemon ( Λακεδαίμων ); this is the name commonly used in the works of Homer and the Athenian historians Herodotus and Thucydides.

Moreover, the Achaea of Herodotus ' time spoke Doric ( Corinthian ), but in Homer it is portrayed as being in the kingdom of Mycenae, which most likely spoke Mycenaean Greek, which is not Doric.

The number of Niobids mentioned most usually numbered twelve ( Homer ) or fourteen ( Euripides and pseudo-Apollodorus ), but other sources mention twenty, four ( Herodotus ), or eighteen ( Sappho ).

Students learning Ancient Greek today usually start with the Attic dialect, proceeding, depending on their interest, to the koine of the New Testament and other early Christian writings, or Homeric Greek to read the works of Homer and Hesiod, or Ionic Greek to read the histories of Herodotus and the medical texts of Hippocrates.

Ionic acquired prestige among Greek speakers because of its association with the language used by both Homer and Herodotus and the close linguistic relationship with the Attic dialect as spoken in Athens.

He translated into Latin Herodotus, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Homer, Theocritus, Sophocles, Lucian, Theodoretus, Nicephorus, Ptolemy and other Greek writers.

Winckelmann had read Homer, Herodotus, Sophocles, Xenophon, and Plato, but he found at Nöthnitz the works of such famous Enlightenment writers as Voltaire and Montesquieu.

Records of bird migration were made 3, 000 years ago by Hesiod, Homer, Herodotus and Aristotle.

However, Herodotus recorded three earlier sources that supposedly mentioned the Hyperboreans, including Hesiod and Homer, the latter purportedly having written of Hyperborea in his lost work Epigoni: " if that be really a work of his.

This is very different from Herodotus, who frequently mentions the role of the gods, as well as a nearly ubiquitous divine presence in the centuries-earlier poems of Homer.

Ancient Greeks ( Strabo, Herodotus, Plutarch, Homer, etc.

According to Homer, the Leleges were a distinct Anatolian tribe ; according to Herodotus the Leleges were an early name for the Carians ; and according to the fourth-century BCE historian Philippus of Theangela, who suggested the Leleges had connections to Messenia, in mainland Greece, they were overcome by the Carians.

*' 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.

These include Moses, Louis Pasteur, Dante Alighieri, Shakespeare, Plato, Benjamin Franklin, Justinian I, Isaac Newton, Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herodotus, Adam Smith, Homer, Johann Gutenberg, Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles Darwin and Hugo Grotius.

The most remarkable, contained in his Chronologiae ex nummis antiquis restitutae ( 1696 ) and Prolegomena ad censuram veterum scriptorum, was to the effect that, with the exception of the works of Homer, Herodotus and Cicero, the Natural History of Pliny, the Georgics of Virgil, and the Satires and Epistles of Horace, all the ancient classics of Greece and Rome were spurious, having been manufactured by monks of the 13th century, under the direction of a certain Severus Archontius.