This daughter of Apries, was none other than Nitetis, who was as per Herodotus's account, " tall and beautiful.

This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's.

The debt may have been repaid by Sophocles because there appear to be echoes of The Histories in his plays, especially a passage in Antigone that resembles Herodotus's account of the death of Intaphernes ( Histories 3. 119 ~ Antigone 904-20 )-this however is one of the most contentious issues in modern scholarship.

This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's.

Scholars in the 19th and 20th centuries had relied upon Herodotus's account, but Sir Henry Layard's discoveries in the royal archives at Nineveh and Calah have enabled the study of new source material that is several centuries earlier than Herodotus's history.

This is Herodotus's account ( Histories 1. 31 ) of the story and it comes couched as advice from Solon the Athenian to Croesus as to who the most blessed people in history are.

This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's.

This account is fairly consistent with Herodotus's.

In Herodotus's account, he states that the Neuri were driven from their land " one generation before the attack of Darius ( 512 BC )" by an invasion of serpents.

However, in some other passages, Herodotus's account is wrong also on the name of the son of Chishpish, which he mentions as Cambyses but, according to modern scholars, should be Cyrus I.

The first known of these is Herodotus's account of the Persian Wars, however he did not himself participate in the events.

* The English Patient ( 1996, by Anthony Minghella ), with Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott-Thomas and Colin Firth ; Katherine reads aloud the account of Candaules and Gyges from Herodotus's Histories.

An example of this is given by Herodotus's detailed account of the futile Persian campaigns against the Scythians.

* Herodotus's account of the Libyan female warriors in Corinthian helmets-via the Perseus Project

Thucydides seems to echo Herodotus's account, making it probable that the story was disseminated by the Macedonian court, i. e. it accounts the belief the Macedonians themselves had about the origin of their kingdom, if not an actual memory of this beginning.

Taking Herodotus's lineage account as the most trustworthy, Appian recalls that, after Perdiccas, six successive heirs ruled: Argeus, Philip, Aeropus, Alcetas, Amyntas and Alexander.

Herodotus's method of enquiry presents a world where everything is potentially important — this at a time when philosophers increasingly sought to understand the world according to basic principles.

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.

Herodotus's story is that while mounting his horse, the tip of Cambyses's scabbard broke and his sword pierced his thigh-Herodotus mentions it is the same place where he stabbed a sacred cow in Egypt.

They included an Epitome of Herodotus's History ( Whether this work is actually his is debated ), the Hellenics, the History of Philip, and several panegyrics and hortatory addresses, the chief of which was the Letter to Alexander.

The name is a variant of Calchedon (), found on all the coins of Chalcedon as well as in manuscripts of Herodotus's Histories, Xenophon's Hellenica, Arrian's Anabasis, and other works.

Whether the story is true or not, it has no connection with the Battle of Marathon itself, and Herodotus's silence on the subject of a herald running from Marathon to Athens suggests strongly that no such event occurred.

The earliest extant source that mentions Hyperborea in detail is Herodotus's Histories ( Book IV, Chapters 32 – 36 ), written circa 450 BC.

Herodotus's narrative after the Battle of Ephesus is ambiguous in its exact chronology ; historians generally place Sardis and Ephesus in 498 BC.

He adopts Herodotus's derivation of θεὀς ( theòs ) from τἰθημι ( tithemi ), since God set all things in order, comparing with it that of Plato from θεεῖν ( theein ), because the Deity is ever in motion.

At the end of Herodotus's book 7, there is an anecdote relating that in the run-up to the second invasion, Demaratus sent an apparently blank wax tablet to Sparta.

" Moreover, Oswyn Murray argues that much of Herodotus's discussion of the Revolt is dependent on Ionian oral tradition, which is perhaps suspect because of their defeat.

Pericles Georges in particular has attempted to contest Murray's claims, arguing that not only did Persian expansion cause economic prosperity for the Ionians but Herodotus's depictions of Ionian politics is consistent with other contemporary sources.

The Persian Wars ( 500 – 448 BC ) are recounted in Herodotus's Histories.

Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off ( at the Siege of Sestos ), and may therefore have felt that Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting.

Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off ( at the Siege of Sestos ), and therefore evidently felt that Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting.

" It seems likely that in the 500 years between Herodotus's time and Plutarch's, the story of Pheidippides had become muddled with that of the Battle of Marathon ( particularly the story of the Athenian forces making the march from Marathon to Athens in order to intercept the Persian ships headed there ), and some fanciful writer had invented the story of the run from Marathon to Athens.

Severed hands in an occult context occur as early as Herodotus's " Tale of Rhampsinitus " ( ii, 121 ), in which a clever thief leaves a dead hand behind in order to avoid capture, or in early stories of lycanthropy, such as Henry Boguet's Discours exécrable de sorciers in 1590.

Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off ( at the Siege of Sestos ), and therefore evidently felt that Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting.

Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off ( at the Siege of Sestos ), and therefore presumably felt that Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting.

Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off ( at the Siege of Sestos ), and therefore evidently felt that Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting.

Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off ( at the Siege of Sestos ), and therefore evidently felt that Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting.

However, the cities that Herodotus describes Daurises as besieging were on the Hellespont, which ( by Herodotus's own reckoning ) did not become involved in the revolt until after Ephesus.

It was conventional in Herodotus's day for authors to ' publish ' their works by reciting them at popular festivals.

Herodotus's approach was entirely novel, and at least in Western society, he does seem to have invented ' history ' as we know it.

Archaeological evidence, such as the Serpent Column, also supports some of Herodotus's specific claims.

Although The Histories were often criticized in antiquity for bias, inaccuracy and plagiarism — Lucian of Samosata attacked Herodotus as a liar in Verae Historiae and went as far as to deny him a place among the famous on the Island of the Blessed — modern historians and philosophers take a more positive view of Herodotus's methodology, especially those searching for a paradigm of objective historical writing.

Herodotus's works covered what was then the entire known world of the Greeks, or at least the part regarded as worthy of study, i. e., the peoples surrounding the Mediterranean.

According to Herodotus's Histories, the seventh century BC sage Aristeas of Proconnesus was first found dead, after which his body disappeared from a locked room.

This image illustrates Herodotus's version of the tale of Gyges of Lydia | Gyges.

However, his great rival Thucydides promptly discarded Herodotus's all-embracing approach to history, offering instead a more precise, sharply focused monograph, dealing not with vast empires over the centuries but with 27 years of war between Athens and Sparta.

Even though Herodotus's report in the Histories has created certain problems concerning Xerxes's religious beliefs, modern scholars consider him a Zoroastrian.

Herodotus's approach was entirely novel, and at least in Western society, he does seem to have invented ' history ' as we know it.

Archaeological evidence, such as the Serpent Column, also supports some of Herodotus's specific claims.