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    was then within the Persian Empire, making Herodotus a Persian subject, and it may be that the young Herodotus heard local eyewitness accounts of events...
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    The Histories, Herodotus sets out his reasons for writing it: Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus...
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  • Look up Herodotus in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian. Herodotus may also refer to: Herodotus (physician), the...
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    the mare surface is a solitary lunar dome designated Herodotus Omega (ω). The crater Herodotus has a slightly irregular, narrow rim that appears somewhat...
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    Herodotus and his methods. Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off (at the siege of Sestos) and felt Herodotus's...
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    Battle of Thermopylae itself, two principal sources, Herodotus' and Simonides' accounts, survive. Herodotus' account in Book VII of his Histories is such an...
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    Mons Herodotus is a small lunar mountain north of the crater Herodotus. It lies on the rugged Aristarchus Plateau and rises approximately 1 km above the...
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  • The Herodotus Machine was a machine described by Herodotus. According to Herodotus, this invention enabled the ancient Egyptians to construct the pyramids...
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    Catalogues of Women For all references to Ethiopia in Herodotus, see: this list at the Perseus Project. "Herodotus, The Histories, Book 2, chapter 29, section 4"...
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    174 Herodotus VII, 59 Archived 29 November 2022 at the Wayback Machine Herodotus VII, 84 Archived 6 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine Herodotus VII, 62...
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    Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting. Plutarch criticised Herodotus in his essay On the malice of Herodotus,...
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    work of Herodotus is reported to have been recited at festivals, where prizes were awarded, as for example, during the games at Olympia. Herodotus views...
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    Publications, ISBN 978-81-87498-26-1 Herodotus – The History of the Persian Wars: A Description of India, extracted from Herodotus, The History, George Rawlinson...
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    to Herodotus" (PDF). manchester.edu. Manchester University, Indiana. Retrieved 13 June 2021. A. A. Long (1974), "Review: The Letter to Herodotus", The...
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    226–227 Herodotus VIII, 44 Herodotus VIII, 1 Herodotus VIII, 43 Herodotus VIII, 45 Herodotus VIII, 47 Herodotus VII, 89 Herodotus VII, 188 Herodotus VIII...
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    that mentions Hyperborea in detail, Herodotus' Histories (Book IV, Chapters 32–36), dates from c. 450 BC. Herodotus recorded three earlier sources that...
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     343–344. Herodotus IX.53. Herodotus IX.56. Herodotus IX.97. Herodotus VII.229. Herodotus IX.71. Herodotus IX.72. Herodotus 9.45. Herodotus 9.48-49. Bury...
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    of Pisistratus, guided the Persians to Marathon. — Herodotus According to Miller (2006), Herodotus, only 30–40 years removed from the events in question...
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    Persia". In Vignolo Munson, Rosaria (ed.). Herodotus. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Vol. 2: Herodotus and the World (reprint ed.). Oxford: Oxford...
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    University Press. p. 455. Herodotus (ed. Henry Cary) (1904). The Histories of Herodotus. New York: D. Appleton and Company. p. 438. Herodotus, 7.238 Encyclopaedia...
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    battle of Pelusium is from Greek historians, particularly Herodotus. According to Herodotus, the conflict between the Pharaoh Amasis II of Egypt and Cambyses...
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    the Greek historian and geographer Herodotus, particularly with regard to the Greco-Persian Wars. In Book 4, Herodotus mentions for the first time the term...
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  • Travels with Herodotus (Polish: Podróże z Herodotem) is a non-fiction book written by the Polish journalist, Ryszard Kapuściński, published in 2004. The...
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    elsewhere by Herodotus, Cyaxares died 10 years before the eclipse. An alternative theory regarding the date of the battle suggests that Herodotus was recounting...
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    Malignity of Herodotus", describing Herodotus as "Philobarbaros" (barbarian-lover), for not being pro-Greek enough, which suggests that Herodotus might actually...
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    brother (called Patizeithes by Herodotus), who is said to have been the real promoter of the intrigue. According to Herodotus, the name of the Magian usurper...
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  • 28 March 2007. Herodotus, Histories, 7.213 Herodotus, Histories, 7.200 Herodotus, Histories, 7.215 Herodotus, Histories, 7.213 Herodotus, Histories, 7...
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    Herodotus, Histories v.52-54, viii.98; Herodotus seems to have been in possession of an itinerary. Calder, W. M. (1925). "The Royal Road in Herodotus"...
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    ensure they would act bravely. Plutarch, in On the Malice of Herodotus, believe that Herodotus wrote that because he just wanted verses in order to make...
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    Press, 2009, p. 88. Herodotus & de Sélincourt 1954, pp. 43–46 André Gide, Le roi Candaule (1901) Hebbel, Gyges und sein Ring Herodotus, Histories, Book 1...
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