These numbers are highly comparable to the number of troops Herodotus says that the Athenians and Plataeans sent to the Battle of Plataea 11 years later.

In the immediate aftermath of the battle, Herodotus says that the Persian fleet sailed around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus says of the Phocaeans that " it was they who made the Greeks acquainted with ...

Herodotus says that Croesus regarded the Phrygian royal house as " friends " but does not mention whether the Phrygian royal house still ruled as ( vassal ) kings of Phrygia.

Since Herodotus says elsewhere that Phrygians anciently lived in Europe where they were known as Bryges, the existence of the garden implies that Herodotus believed Midas lived prior to a Phrygian migration to Anatolia.

Herodotus says that a " Midas son of Gordias " made an offering to the Oracle of Delphi of a royal throne " from which he made judgments " that " was well worth seeing ", and that this Midas was the only foreigner to make an offering to Delphi before Gyges of Lydia.

Some historians believe this Midas donated the throne that Herodotus says was offered to the Oracle of Delphi by " Midas son of Gordias " ( see above ).

Herodotus says that the Neuri had Scythian customs, but they were at first not considered Scythian.

The Greek historian Herodotus says Pyrene is the name of a town in Celtic Europe.

Herodotus ( 1, 23 ) says " Arion was second to none of the lyre-players in his time and was also the first man we know of to compose and name the dithyramb and teach it in Corinth ".

Clearly though, at some point after capturing Athens, Xerxes held a council of war with the Persian fleet ; Herodotus says this occurred at Phalerum.

The Caunians, says Herodotus, followed a similar example immediately after.

Herodotus also says or implies that 80 Xanthian families were away at the time, perhaps with the herd animals in alpine summer pastures ( pure speculation ), but helped repopulate the place.

Herodotus says that Satrapy 1 ( the satrapies were numbered ) consisted of Ionia, Magnesia, Aeolia, Caria, Lycia, Milya, and Pamphylia, who togther paid a tax of 400 silver talents.

Herodotus says Sakas had " high caps tapering to a point and stiffly upright.

Herodotus, who lived one hundred years after Milo's death, says the wrestler accepted a large sum of money from the distinguished physician Democedes for the privilege of marrying Milo's daughter.

This mythic element says that the oracles at the oasis of Siwa in Libya and of Dodona in Epirus were equally old, but similarly transmitted by Phoenician culture, and that the seeresses — Herodotus does not say " sibyls " — were women.

Herodotus says Midas was Gordias ' son and does not mention Cybele.

Herodotus also says that Gordias ' son Midas had a garden in Macedonia, which could imply that Herodotus believed Gordias lived before the legendary Phrygian migration to Anatolia.

The Midas of the late 8th century BC had a Greek wife and strong ties to the Greeks, which suggests it was he who made the offering ; but Herodotus also says Gyges of Lydia, a contemporary of that Midas, was " the first foreigner since Midas " to make an offering at Delphi, which suggests Herodotus believed the throne was donated by the more ancient Midas.

Herodotus, who visited Thasos, says that the best mines on the island were those opened by the Phoenicians on the east side of the island facing Samothrace.

There is nothing to fill the gap until history begins with the classical Greek historian, Herodotus, who mentions them extensively, except legend.

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.

The ram deity of Mendes was described by Herodotus in his History as being represented with the head and fleece of a goat: “... whereas anyone with a sanctuary of Mendes or who comes from the province of Mendes, will have nothing to do with ( sacrificing ) goats, but uses sheep as his sacrificial animals ...

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote, " There is nothing in the world that travels faster than these Persian couriers.

One theory provided by Herodotus is that Leonidas sent away the remainder of his men because he cared about their safety.

Herodotus says that Cyrus kept Astyages at his court during the remainder of his life, while according to Ctesias, he was made a governor of a region of Parthia and was later murdered by a political opponent, Oebaras.

Olen () was a legendary early poet from Lycia who went to Delos, where his hymns celebrating the first handmaidens of Apollo in the island of the god's birth and other " ancient hymns " were still part of the cult at Delos in the time of Herodotus:

Amasis worrying that his daughter would be a concubine to the Persian king refused to give up his offspring ; Amasis also was not willing to take on the Persian empire so he concocted a trickery in which he forced the daughter of the ex-pharaoh Apries, whom Herodotus explicitly confirms to have been killed by Amasis, to go to Persia instead of his own offspring.

Herodotus relates that under his prudent administration, Egypt reached a new level of wealth ; Amasis adorned the temples of Lower Egypt especially with splendid monolithic shrines and other monuments ( his activity here is proved by existing remains ).

The legendary history of these relations, as recorded by Herodotus ( v. 79-89 ; vi.

No date is assigned by Herodotus for this old feud ; recent writers, e. g. J.

There does, however, seem to have been a delay between the Athenian arrival at Marathon, and the battle ; Herodotus, who evidently believed that Miltiades was eager to attack, may have made a mistake whilst seeking to explain this delay.

This theory therefore utilises Herodotus ' suggestion that after Marathon, the Persian army re-embarked and tried to sail around Cape Sounion to attack Athens directly ; however, according to the first theory this attempt would have occurred before the battle ( and indeed have triggered the battle ).

Herodotus suggests that this was the first time a Greek army ran into battle in this way ; this was probably because it was the first time that a Greek army had faced an enemy composed primarily of missile troops.

Indeed, based on their previous experience of the Greeks, the Persians might be excused for this ; Herodotus tells us that the Athenians at Marathon were " first to endure looking at Median dress and men wearing it, for up until then just hearing the name of the Medes caused the Hellenes to panic ".

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.

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 ).

Herodotus ( 5th century BC ), the great Greek historian ; one of the earliest historians whose work survives.

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.

Embedded in Greek myth, there remain fragments of quite variant tales, hinting at the rich variety of myth that once existed, city by city ; but Hesiod's retelling of the old stories became, according to the fifth-century historian Herodotus, the accepted version that linked all Hellenes.

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.

Herodotus mentions writing on skins as common in his time, the 5th century BCE ; and in his Histories ( v. 58 ) he states that the Ionians of Asia Minor had been accustomed to give the name of skins ( diphtherai ) to books ; this word was adapted by Hellenized Jews to describe scrolls.

Using Herodotus ' standard of 600 feet for one stadium obtains 4545 miles ; however, there is no way to tell which standard foot was in effect.

The distinction between a formally polite greeting and an obeisance is often hard to make ; for example, proskynesis ( Greek for " moving towards ") is described by the Greek researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who lived in the 5th century BC in his Histories 1. 134:

* Herodotus, Histories, A. D. Godley ( translator ), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1920 ; ISBN 0-674-99133-8.

It is no accident that even today Thucydides turns up as a guiding spirit in military academies, neocon think tanks and the writings of men like Henry Kissinger ; whereas Herodotus has been the choice of imaginative novelists ( Michael Ondaatje's novel The English Patient and the film based on it boosted the sale of the Histories to a wholly unforeseen degree ) and — as food for a starved soul — of an equally imaginative foreign correspondent from Iron Curtain Poland, Ryszard Kapuscinski.

In Rome, the vast, patriotic history of Rome by Livy ( 59 BC-17 AD ) approximated Herodotean inclusiveness ; Polybius ( c. 200-c. 118 BC ) aspired to combine the logical rigor of Thucydides with the scope of Herodotus.

Herodotus claimed Nile crocodiles had a symbiotic relationship with certain birds, such as the Egyptian plover, which enter the crocodile's mouth and pick leeches feeding on the crocodile's blood ; with no evidence of this interaction actually occurring in any crocodile species, it is most likely mythical or allegorical fiction.

" The Commentary on Herodotus by How and Wells remarks: " They crucified him with hands and feet stretched out and nailed to cross-pieces ; cf.

Works of Athenagoras, Aristotle, and Aeschylus appeared in 1557 ; Diodorus Siculus, 1559 ; Xenophon, 1561 ; Sextus Empiricus, 1562 ; Thucydides, 1564 ; Herodotus, both 1566 and 1581 ; and Sophocles, in 1568.