Herodotus explicitly tells us that the Greeks attacked the Persians ( and the other sources confirm this ), but it is not clear why they did this before the arrival of the Spartans.

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 ".

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 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.

The length that Herodotus tells us, of over 1000 stadia ( i. e., over 114 miles ), must be understood to include the entire distance between the Nile and the Red Sea at that time.

Herodotus tells us that the reason the project was abandoned was because of a warning received from an oracle that others would benefit by its successful completion.

As Herodotus tells it:

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

* c. 484 – 425 BC Herodotus tells us Egyptian doctors were specialists: Medicine is practiced among them on a plan of separation ; each physician treats a single disorder, and no more.

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

Herodotus tells us that in the Lydian account, Croesus was placed upon a great pyre by Cyrus ' orders, for Cyrus wanted to see if any of the heavenly powers would appear to save him from being burned alive.

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.

The Greek historian Herodotus, who tells a similar story, relates that during his visit to the city, the Persians, at that point the suzerains of the country, paid particular attention to the condition of these dams so that the city was saved from the annual flooding.

) Herodotus, in The History of Herodotus ( 440 BC ), tells how Leotychides was incriminated by a glove ( gauntlet ) full of silver that he received as a bribe.

Herodotus tells that, in order to avoid coming under Theban hegemony, Plataea offered to " put themselves into Spartan hands ".

Herodotus also tells us that Hyrcanian soldiers were part of the large army which king Xerxes I ( 486-465 ) commanded against the Greeks in 480.

Herodotus ( II, 143 ) tells a story of a visit by Hecataeus to an Egyptian temple at Thebes.

Herodotus tells us that, on seeing the outcome of the battle hung in the balance, the disarmed Samians had joined in on the side of the allies, doing what they could.

Herodotus also tells the story of Polycrates ' death.

Herodotus tells us of secret messages physically concealed beneath wax on wooden tablets or as a tattoo on a slave's head concealed by regrown hair, though these are not properly examples of cryptography per se as the message, once known, is directly readable ; this is known as steganography.

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.

The Sattagudai and the Gandarioi and the Dadikai and the Aparutai, who were all reckoned together paid 170 talents. Herodotus, without assigning a name to the satrapy, tells us that Darius ' yth Satrapy was inhabited by four tribes, the Sattagudai, the Gandarioi, the Dadikai, and the Aparutai.

:" Let us now refer to the third passage cited, in which Herodotus, without assigning a name to the satrapy, tells us that Darius ' yth

He was buried at the royal necropolis of Sais, and while his tomb was never discovered, Herodotus describes it for us:

Only fragments of the latter's work survive ( and the authenticity of these is debatable ) yet they allow us glimpses into the kind of tradition within which Herodotus wrote his own Histories, as for example in the introduction to Hecataeus's work, Genealogies:

The Suda also informs us that Herodotus later returned home to lead the revolt that eventually overthrew the tyrant.

Details about Solon's personal life have been passed down to us by ancient authors such as Plutarch and Herodotus.

However, Herodotus leaves us in no doubt that his real aim was simply to escape his quasi-captivity in Persia.

Herodotus ( I: 96ff ) says that Deioces ( Deyaco ), father of Phraortes, was " a man of great ability and ambitious for power " in a time when there was no government in the region ; people in his own and other villages chose him to arbitrate disputes, and eventually selected him as their king: " Let us appoint one of our number to rule us so that we can get on with our work under orderly government, and not lose our homes altogether in the present chaos.

The affinities between it and Hesiod, Herodotus, Manetho, and the Hebrew Bible ( specifically, the Torah and Deuteronomistic History ) as histories of the classical world give us an idea about how ancient people viewed their worlds.

Herodotus tells us that in the sixth century BC, the Athenians celebrated a quadrennial festival at Sounion, which involved Athens ' leaders sailing to the cape in a sacred boat.

* 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.

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote about the gold trade with Ghana and Carthage: " The Carthaginians also tell us that they trade with a race of men who live in a part of Libya beyond the Pillars of Hercules.

Herodotus tells us that at some point in the Archaic period, Methymna enslaved the city of Arisba on Lesbos: this will have greatly increased the territory of Methymna, as well as giving it access to the fertile land around the Gulf of Kalloni.

It is probable, therefore, that Herodotus is in error both in tracing back the beginning of hostilities to an alliance between Thebes and Aegina ( c. 507 BC ) and in putting the episode of Nicodromus before Marathon.

Herodotus ( 484 c BC – 425 c BC ) attests that the Gandarian mercenaries ( i. e. Gandharans / Kambojans of Gandari Strapy of Achaemenids ) from the 20th strapy of the Achaemenids were recruited in the army of emperor Xerxes I ( 486-465 BC ), which he led against the Hellas.

Early conceptions of ecology, such as a balance and regulation in nature can be traced to Herodotus ( died c. 425 BC ), who described one of the earliest accounts of mutualism in his observation of " natural dentistry ".

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.

The earliest known critical historical works were The Histories, composed by Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( 484 BC – c.

One remarkable commentary of Herodotus on Heracles is that he lived 900 years before himself ( c. 1300 BCE ).

The earliest written evidence of people living in the territory of the present-day Romania comes from Herodotus in book IV of his Histories written c. 440 BCE.

Reconstruction of the Ecumene ( inhabited world ) ancient map from Herodotus, c. 450 BC.

( The element of a ring thrown into the sea and found back in a fish's belly later appeared in Herodotus ' account of Polycrates, the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC.

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 of Halicarnassus, historian ( c. 485 BC )

The Greek historian Herodotus ( c. 484 – 420 BC ) observed that each society regards its own belief system and way of doing things as better than all others.

* 425 BC – Herodotus, Greek historian ( approximate date ) ( b. c. 485 BC

By the time of Herodotus ( c. 475 BC ), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2, 857 km from the city of Susa on the Karun ( 250 km east of the Tigris ) to the port of Smyrna ( modern İzmir in Turkey ) on the Aegean Sea.

Much of the surviving information about the Scythians comes from the Greek historian Herodotus ( c. 440 BC ) in his Histories and Ovid in his poem of exile Epistulae ex Ponto, and archaeologically from the exquisite goldwork found in Scythian burial mounds in Ukraine and Southern Russia.

* Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Greek historian ( approximate date ) ( d. c. 425 BC )

One remarkable commentary of Herodotus on Pan is that he lived 800 years before himself ( c. 1200 BCE ), this being already after the Trojan War.

According to the Histories of Herodotus ( c. 440 BC ), the Cimmerians had been expelled from the steppes by the Scythians.

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.

Being called Buto by the Greeks during Ptolemaic Egypt, a Greek dynasty ruling from 305 to 30 BC, it was the capital town, or according to Herodian, merely the principal village of the Nile Delta, which Herodotus ( l. c .) calls the Chemmite nome ; Ptolemy, the Phthenothite nome (, iv.

Sybaris was at its height during the time of Smindyrides ( c. 580 – 560 BC ), a prominent citizen who is claimed by Herodotus to have surpassed all other men in refined luxury.