The use of the abacus in Ancient Egypt is mentioned by the Greek historian Herodotus, who writes that the Egyptians manipulated the pebbles from right to left, opposite in direction to the Greek left-to-right method.

During Virgil's time Aeneas was well-known and various versions of his adventures were circulating in Rome, including Roman Antiquities by Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus ( relying on Marcus Terentius Varro, Ab Urbe Condita by Livy ( probably dependent on Quintus Fabius Pictor, fl.

According to the Greek historian, he was of common origins.

Anaximenes () of Lampsacus ( c. 380 – 320 BC ) was a Greek rhetorician and historian.

* 1926 – Helene Ahrweiler, Greek historian and educator

* Claudius Aelianus, Roman teacher and historian of the 3rd century, who wrote in Greek

* Arrian, Greek historian

In the 3rd century, however, the Greek historian Dio Cassius states that the " Bastarnae are properly classed as Scythians " and " members of the Scythian race ".

The Greek historian Herodotus wrote that Xerxes sought his harem after being defeated in the Greco-Persian Wars.

( In contrast, the Greek historian Ctesias refers to a similar father-in-law / general figure named Onaphas.

The main source for the Greco-Persian Wars is the Greek historian Herodotus.

The Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the 1st century BC in his Bibliotheca Historica, also provides an account of the Greco-Persian wars, partially derived from the earlier Greek historian Ephorus.

Greek historian Plutarch discusses an argument between Chrysippus ( 3rd century BCE ) and Hipparchus ( 2nd century BCE ) of a rather delicate enumerative problem, which was later shown to be related to Schröder numbers.

Various History — for the most part preserved only in an abridged form — is Aelian's other well-known work, a miscellany of anecdotes and biographical sketches, lists, pithy maxims, and descriptions of natural wonders and strange local customs, in 14 books, with many surprises for the cultural historian and the mythographer, anecdotes about the famous Greek philosophers, poets, historians, and playwrights and myths instructively retold.

In antiquity, the Greek historian Herodotus mentioned that the world had been divided by unknown persons into three parts, Europe, Asia, and Libya ( Africa ), with the Nile and the River Phasis forming their boundaries — though he also states that some considered the River Don, rather than the Phasis, as the boundary between Europe and Asia.

In the 1st century BC, the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus stated that the Etruscan language was unlike any other.

She is compared with Penthesilea, mythical queen of the Amazons, by the Greek historian Nicetas Choniates ; he adds that she gained the epithet chrysopous ( golden-foot ) from the cloth of gold that decorated and fringed her robe.

The historian James Partington further thinks it likely that Greek fire was not in fact the creation of any single person, but " invented by chemists in Constantinople who had inherited the discoveries of the Alexandrian chemical school ".

An alternate name for Greek fire was " Median fire " (), and the 6th-century historian Procopius, records that crude oil, which was called naphtha ( in Greek νάφθα, naphtha, from Middle Persian نفت ( naft )) by the Persians, was known to the Greeks as " Median oil " ().

Herodotus (; Hēródotos ) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria ( modern day Bodrum, Turkey ) and lived in the fifth century BC ( 484 – 425 BC ).

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

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.

What is known about the easternmost satraps and borderlands of the Achaemenid Empire are alluded to in the Darius inscriptions and from Greek sources such as the Histories of Herodotus and the later Alexander Chronicles ( Arrian, Strabo et al .).

Greek writers about India such as Megasthenes and Arrian describe many of the states having republican governments akin to those of Greece.

Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia.

Of Posidonius's work on tactics, The Art of War, the Greek historian Arrian complained that it was written ' for experts ', which suggests that Posidonius may have had first hand experience of military leadership or, perhaps, utilized knowledge he gained from his acquaintance with Pompey.

Arrian of Nicomedia (; ; AD 86 – 160 ) was a Roman ( ethnic Greek ) historian, public servant, military commander and philosopher of the 2nd-century Roman period.

As with other authors of the Second Sophistic, Arrian wrote primarily in Attic ( Indica is in Herodotus ' Ionic dialect, his philosophical works in Koine Greek ).

Arrian was born of Greek ethnicity in the coastal town of Nicomedia ( present-day Izmit ), the capital of the Roman province of Bithynia, in what is now north-western Turkey, about 70 km from Byzantium ( later Constantinople, now Istanbul ).

B. Bosworth, an expert on Greek history, criticized what he viewed as Arrian's hagiography in ' Errors in Arrian ' ( 1976 )

As a writer, Arrian was obliged by the prevailing literary mores of his time to compose his works in " good Greek ," which meant imitating as closely as possible the grammar and literary style of the Athenian writers of the 5th century BC.

The result is a work which was inevitably stilted and artificial, although Arrian handled the strain of writing 500-year-old Greek better than some of his contemporaries.

* Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, Teubner monolingual Greek edition, edited by A. G. Roos ( 1907 )

* Arrian, Array against the Alans translated by Sander van Dorst, with the Greek ( transliterated ) and copious notes.

Some Georgian scholars have suggested that the Greek copyists of Arrian might have confused Chorasmia with Cholarzene ( Chorzene ), a Classical rendering of the southwest Georgian marchlands ( the medieval Tao-Klarjeti ), which indeed bordered with Colchis and Pontus.

* The Greek historian Arrian of Nicomedia wrote Anabasis Alexandri or The Campaigns of Alexander in Greek.

In Greek legend, the city was first called Thoana because Thoas, a Thracian king, was its founder ( Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, vi ); it was in Cappadocia, at the foot of the Taurus Mountains and near the Cilician Gates ( Strabo, XII, 537 ; XIII, 587 ).

* Anabasis Alexandri, by the Greek historian Arrian ( 86 – after 146 AD ), about Alexander the Great ( 336 – 323 BC )

Anabasis Alexandri ( Greek: ), the Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian, is the most important source on Alexander the Great.

The palace of Sopeithes which the Greek historian Arrian mentions as the place on the Hydaspes is supposed to be at Bhera.

The term is particularly ( and originally ) used to describe the use of this formation in Ancient Greek warfare, although the ancient Greek writers used it to also describe any massed infantry formation, regardless of its equipment, as does Arrian in his Array against the Alans when he refers to his legions.

The oldest documented description of hare coursing is the work Kynegetikos ( Greek ), otherwise known as Cynegeticus ( Latin ), which was written by Arrian circa 180 AD.

Among the Greek writers Arrian refers to them as Assakenoi and Aspasioi.