61. Herodotus — History.com Articles, Video, Pictures And Facts Many people believe that the writer Herodotus (c. 485–425 B.C.) was the world’s first historianthe first writer to research past events and present his findings in an http://www.history.com/topics/herodotus

Home Topics TV Shows This Day in History ... Shop Search Follow HISTORY Promotions October Daily Deals 50% Off Ice Road Truckers DVD Set 39% Off Ax Men Seasons 1 - 3 History Club Herodotus // zoneId = textEntitlement document.write(''); A A A Share ... Cite This // snippetId = 3 document.write(''); Did You Know? In 443 B.C., Herodotus joined a group of Athenians who set out to colonize a city, Thurii, in southern Italy. He died there in around 425 B.C. Contents The Early Life of Herodotus Origins of the Histories The Legacy of the Histories The Early Life of Herodotus Origins of the Histories The Histories After Herodotus died, editors divided his Histories into nine books. (Each was named after one of the Muses.) The first five books look into the past to try to explain the rise and fall of the Persian Empire. They describe the geography of each state the Persians conquered and tell about their people and customs. The next four books tell the story of the war itself, from the invasions of Greece by Persian emperors Darius and Xerxes to the Greek triumphs at Salamis, Plataea and Mycale in 480 and 479 B.C. The Legacy of the Histories Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. But if you see something that doesn't look right

62. Ancient History Sourcebook: Accounts Of Persian "Despotism" And Law, Narrations found in Herodotus s The Histories, written c. 430 B.C. and The Book of Esther, written c. 300 B.C. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/persianlaw.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Accounts of Persian "Despotism" and Law, c. 430-300 BCE Herodotus: The Histories , [written c. 430 B.C.] Book II, '31 The Book of Esther , [written c. 300 B.C.] This proposal found acceptance with the king and the officials, and the king acted on the advice of Memucan. He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, to the effect that every man should be lord in his own home. Source: From: Herodotus, The History, The Bible (Douai-Rheims Version), (Baltimore: John Murphy Co., 1914). Scanned by: J. S. Arkenberg, Dept. of History, Cal. State Fullerton. Prof. Arkenberg has modernized the text. This text is part of the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook . The Sourcebook is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted texts related to medieval and Byzantine history. � Paul Halsall, August 1998 halsall@murray.fordham.edu

63. Herodotus, U. Of Saskatchewan Notice This material is the copyrighted property of the author and should not be reproduced without the author's permission. http://homepage.usask.ca/~jrp638/CourseNotes/HdtNotes.html

To Home Page To Course Notes Menu Herodotus by John Porter, University of Saskatchewan Notice: Introduction Historical Background Herodotus and Myth: I Herodotus' Relationship to Contemporary "Historians" ... Herodotus' Histories and Contemporary Politics Background Readings For the historical background, see The World of Athens, H.I. 12-28, 7.32-33, and P. 2-6. Maps can be found at the beginning of The World of Athens (Optional: C. G. Starr, A History of the Ancient World, pp. 275-297.) See, as well, s.v. "Herodotus" in the on-line Perseus Project's encyclopedia. For a general overview of readings from Herodotus, consult the Outline of Herodotus, The Histories, Books 1, 6.48ff., 7, and 8. Introduction Herodotus' Histories Today Herodotus is referred to (somewhat inaccurately) as the Father of History; in antiquity, by contrast, he was often called the Father of Lies. This evaluation is based in part on Herodotus' pro-Athenian biases ( discussed below ), but to a great degree it represents a reaction to the curious "tall tales" in which his work abounds: stories, e.g., of gold-digging ants the size of foxes (3.102-05); of races of people bald from birth (4.23) or with the feet of goats (4.25) or with only one eye (4.26); [ FN 1 ] of bizarre sexual practices (these you'll have to find for yourselves!);

64. Ancient History Sourcebook: Greek Reports Of Babylonia, Chaldea, And Assyria An excerpt from Herodotus s The History of the Persian Wars, c. 430 B.C.E. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/greek-babylon.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Greek Reports of Babylonia, Chaldea, and Assyria Herodotus: from The History of the Persian Wars , c. 430 BCE Herodotus : From The History of the Persian Wars , c. 430 BCE I.178: Assyria possesses a vast number of great cities, whereof the most renowned and strongest at this time was Babylon, where, after the fall of Nineveh, the seat of government had been removed. The following is a description of the place: The city stands on a broad plain, and is an exact square, a hundred and twenty furlongs in length each way, so that the entire circuit is four hundred and eighty furlongs. While such is its size, in magnificence there is no other city that approaches to it. It is surrounded, in the first place, by a broad and deep moat, full of water, behind which rises a wall fifty royal cubits in width, and two hundred in height. (The royal cubit is longer by three fingers' breadth than the common cubit.) I.179: I.180:

65. Ancient History Sourcebook: Accounts Of Mer�e, Kush, And Axum, C. 430 BCE - 550 Selected excerpts from Herodotus, Strabo, Dio Cassius, and Procopius of Caesarea. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/nubia1.html

Back to Ancient History Sourcebook Ancient History Sourcebook: Accounts of Mer�e, Kush, and Axum, c. 430 BCE - 550 CE The Selection of Aspalta as King of Kush , c. 600 BCE Herodotus, The Histories , c. 430 BCE, Book III. Strabo: Geography , c. 22 CE, XVI.iv.4-17; XVII.i.53-54, ii.1-3, iii.1-11. Acts of the Apostles Dio Cassius: History of Rome , c. 220 CE, Book LIV.v.4-6. Inscription of Ezana, King of Axum , c. 325 CE Procopius of Caesarea: History of the Wars , c. 550 CE, Book I.xix.1, 17-22, 27-37, xx.1-13 The Selection of Aspalta as King of Kush c. 600 BCE Then they offered the king's brothers before this god, but he did not take one of them. For a second time there was offered the king's brother, son of Amon, and child of Mut, Lady of Heaven, the Son of Re, Aspalta, living forever. Then this god, Amon-Re, Lord of the Thrones of It-Tjwy, said, "He is your king. It is he who will revive you. It is he who will build every temple of Kemet and Rekhyt. It is he who will present their divine offerings. His father was my son, the Son of Re, Inle-Amon, the triumphant. His mother is the king's sister, king's mother, Kandake of Kush, and Daughter of Re, Nensela, living forever, He is your lord." Herodotus The Histories , c. 430 BCE, Book III.

66. Herodotus You can also c lick here to go directly to AncientSculptureGallery.com's Hellenistic, Macedonian, Greek, and Roman sculptures. http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/AncientMacedonia/herodotus.html

You can also c lick here to go directly to AncientSculptureGallery.com's Hellenistic, Macedonian, Greek, and Roman sculptures. Ancient Sculpture Gallery has 9 different busts, statues, and plaques of Alexander the Great (including the famous Alexander Sarcophagus) and sculptures of Philip of Macedon, Demosthenes, Achilles, Hippocrates, Caesar, Apollo, Aphrodite, Heracles, Pan, Orpheus, Zeus, Artemis, Hermes, Dionysus, Athena, Perseus, Medusa, Eros, Centaur, Lapith, Nike, the Maenads, the Muses, the Graces, etc. Herodotus Ancient Greek Writer The modern Greek position relies on Herodotus' support for their quest to make the ancient Macedonians Greek. Herodotus, being one of the foremost biographer in antiquity who lived in Greece at the time when the Macedonian king Alexander I was in power, is said to have visited the Macedonian Kingdom and supposedly, profited from this excursion, wrote several short passages about the Macedonians. What did he say, and to what extent can these passages be taken as evidence for the alleged 'greekness' of the ancient Macedonians, will be briefly presented for your adjudication. Herodotus describes the episode with the Persian envoys, who apparently visited Macedon when Alexander I's father Amyntas was in power, and how Alexander I succeeded in 'taking care of the Persians' by murdering all of them and removing their luggage and carriages. When the Persians attempted to trace the lost envoys, Alexander I cleverly succeeded in manipulating the Persians by giving his own sister Gygaea as a wife to the Persian commander Bubares. Here Herodotus writes:

67. Herodotus Summary | BookRags.com Herodotus. Herodotus summary with 3 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/research/herodotus-ued/

68. EpistemeLinks: Electronic Texts For Philosopher Epicurus HTML of Fragments, Last Will, Letter to Herodotus, Menoecius, and Pythocles, On the Nature of Things, Principle Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings. http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/TextName.aspx?PhilCode=Epic

69. Rocky Road: Herodotus Herodotus. In his nine scrolls known as The Histories, Herodotus described the conflict between his own people, the Greeks, and the Persian Empire. http://www.strangescience.net/herodotus.htm

Herodotus In his nine scrolls known as The Histories , Herodotus described the conflict between his own people, the Greeks, and the Persian Empire. While telling the story of their own civilization in conflict with another, many people would be inclined to take sides, but Herodotus strove to show each side's perspective in the struggle. In this, he was like the great poet Homer, but Herodotus innovated even further. Homer wrote his epic as if narrated by a goddess; Herodotus spoke with his own voice, and relayed his own experiences and research. Before Herodotus, accounts of important events had been the purview of royalty, minstrels and priests. Perhaps his innovation in relaying information was partly responsible for his reputation as the "Father of Lies." Historians of classical antiquity suspected Herodotus of passing along hearsay, and perhaps even inventing tales for his own amusement. In his writings, Herodotus often digressed, sharing what he learned from interviewing those he met, and creating some of the more interesting parts of his Histories . He interviewed Scythians living near the Black Sea about their lives, for instance. He also asked them what they knew about the lives of other nomads living farther east. In some cases, Herodotus relayed information that had been through several translations yet, remarkably, modern excavations in Russia and Kazakhstan have found artifacts similar to what he described.

70. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Serrae Titular metropolitan see in Macedonia, more correctly Serrhae, is called Siris by Herodotus. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13731a.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... S > Serrae Serrae Titular metropolitan see in Macedonia , more correctly Serrhae , is called Siris by Herodotus (VIII, 115), Sirae by Titus Livius (XLV, iv). Inscriptions show the official spelling to have been Sirrha or Sirrhae; the form Serrhae prevailed during the Byzantme period (Hierocles, 639, 10; Stephanius Byzantius, s.v.). The city, now called in Turkish Eastern Macedonia , about forty-three miles north-east of Salonica in the plain of Strymon, on the last outposts of the mountains which bound it on the north-east. On his return to the Hellespont, Xerxes left some of his sick followers at Paulus , after his victory at Pydna , received a deputation from Perseus. The city possessed great strategic importance under the Byzantine Empire in the wars against the Serviani and Bulgars . It was captured by the latter in 1206 and recaptured by the Emperor John Dukas in 1245. Later the Servian Kral Stephen Dushan , captured it in turn, was crowned there im 1345, established a Court on the model of that of Byzantium , and married the daughter of Andronicus II. In 1373 it was captured by a

71. Herodotus Biography (Historian) — Infoplease.com Biography of Herodotus, Ancient author of The Histories Herodotus is the ancient writer and reporter called The Father of History. http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/herodotus.html

Site Map FAQ in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Spelling Checker Daily Almanac for Oct 31, 2010 Search White Pages Skip Navigation Home Halloween ... games, quizzes Editor's Favorites Halloween Infoplease's Facebook page Follow Infoplease on Twitter Conversion Calculator ... DK Daily Teach Search: Infoplease Info search tips Search: Biographies Bio search tips Share Herodotus Historian Born: c. 484 B.C. Died: c. 430 B.C. Birthplace: Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey) Best known as: Ancient author of The Histories Herodotus is the ancient writer and reporter called "The Father of History." He was among the first to approach the reporting of history in a logical and skeptical way; he tried to separate true events from myth, and made a point of identifying his sources and noting his trust (or lack of trust) in them. It didn't hurt that he was a colorful writer and commentator; his most famous work, The Histories, remains a widely-read account of ancient facts and legends and (in particular) of the Persian invasion of ancient Greece. (It's the main source for details on the famous battles at Marathon and Thermopylae.) Ironically, the details of Herodotus' own life are unclear. He is believed to have been born at Halicarnassus, on the Aegean Sea in Asia Minor, and to have traveled widely, collecting and recording stories as he went. Extra credit: The Histories is sometimes titled The Inquiries or simply Histories ; all are variations on the original Greek.

72. Satrapies Map and concordance of Persian topographical names. It is based on the Greek authors Arrian, Herodotus, Xenophon and Persian inscriptions. http://www.livius.org/sao-sd/satrap/satrap.htm

home ancient Persia index : collected by Jona Lendering Satraps and satrapies the governors of the satrapies (provinces) of the ancient Achaemenid empire The title satrap is older than the Persian empire: the word is Median (it means 'protector of the realm') and was used to describe the vassal kings of the Median empire. The Median and Persian kings sent out inspectors with the title " eye of the king " to control and supervise their satraps. A satrap receiving a visitor. Monument of the Nereids, Xanthus (British Museum) There are several catalogues of the satrapies of the Achaemenid empire. The best known are Darius ' famous Behistun inscription the tribute list that is included in the Histories of the Greek researcher Herodotus the list of the Persian armed forces in the same work ( more... the inscription on Darius' tomb at the Daiva inscription of Xerxes Finally, there are many satrapies mentioned in a book about Alexander the Great , the Anabasis by Arrian of Nicomedia . These texts allow us to see how the territorial units of the Persian empire slowly changed in the course of two centuries. Darius, Behistun

73. Herodotus Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek Ἡρόδοτος Ἁλικαρνᾱσσεύς Hēr dotos Halikarnāsse s) was a Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484 BC http://schools-wikipedia.org/wp/h/Herodotus.htm

Herodotus 2008/9 Schools Wikipedia Selection . Related subjects: Historians, chroniclers and history books Herodotus Ostensible bust of Herodotus Born c. 484 BC Halicarnassus, Ancient Greece Died c. 425 BC Thurii, Sicily or Pella, Macedon Occupation Historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( Greek ) was a Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( c. c. 425 BC) and is regarded as the "Father of History " in Western culture. He was the first historian to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. He is almost exclusively known for writing The Histories , a record of his "inquiries" (or , a word that passed into Latin and took on its modern connotation of history ) into the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars which occurred in 490 and Mediterranean and Black Sea . Although some of his stories are not completely accurate, he states that he is only reporting what has been told him. Biography Suda , an 11th-century encyclopaedia of the Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts. It holds that he was born in

74. Herodotus Texts Herodotus History. English translation by Rawlinson of the History of Herodotus http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/bl_text_herodotus.htm

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75. Online Encyclopedia And Dictionary - Herodotus Herodotus (Greek ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ, Herodotos) was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC c. 425 BC). He is famous for the descriptions he wrote of http://fact-archive.com/encyclopedia/Herodotus

Search The Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary Encyclopedia Dictionary Quotes Categories ... Ancient Greek historians Herodotus Herodotus Greek Herodotos ) was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC 484 BC - c. 425 BC ). He is famous for the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels and his many books about the Persian invasion in Greece. Contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Overview 2 Opinions 3 Herodotus's life 4 For further reading ... 6 External links Overview Herodotus wrote a history of the Persian invasion of Greece in the early fifth century B.C., known simply as The Histories of Herodotus . This work was recognized as a new form of literature soon after its publication. Before Herodotus, there had been chronicles and epics , and they too had preserved knowledge of the past. But Herodotus was the first not only to record the past but also to treat it as a philosophical problem, or research project, that could yield knowledge of human behavior. Opinions His invention earned him the title "The Father of History" and the word he used for his achievement, which previously had meant simply "research", passed into Latin as

76. Herodotus Greek Historian Father Of History An outline of the life of Herodotus the Greek historian who is known as the father of history. http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/history/historian/Herodotus.html

father of history, Persia, Greece, Hubris Nemesis Home Famous Historian index > Herodotus Site Map Popular Pages Slide Shows Guest Book ... Support Us Herodotus - Greek historian The father of history Herodotus, later famous as a historian to the point of becoming known by his admirers as the 'father of history', was born in Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey) in about 484 BC. � As a son of a prominent family Herodotus received a good education sufficient to allow him to eventually gain an extensive familiarity with the literature of ancient Greece. � He seems to have travelled very extensively in the Greek and Persian worlds into which he had been born. The inhabited world known of by Herodotus. On this map you can discern the Mediterranean Sea with today's Italian peninsula with mainland Greece being located to its right with today's Turkey, (or Asia Minor), being furthur right again. In Herodotus day Halicarnassus was an "Ionian" Greek colonial town subject to Persian overlordship and located at the bottom left of Asia Minor. When he was in his early thirties (circa 457 BC) some political difficulties between Herodotus' wider family and the rulers of Halicarnassus contributed to his living in exile for several years. During these times his initial destination seems to have been the the island of Samos but thereafter Herodotus traveled widely throughout virtually the entire ancient Middle East visiting Asia Minor, Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece.

77. Herodotus, Greece, Ancient History Herodotus (c.484425BC) The Father of History was born in Halicarnassus (today's Turkey). He was exiled from his city after having conspired against the Persian rule, and http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/history/ancient/herodotus.htm

Herodotus (c.484-425BC) The "Father of History" was born in Halicarnassus (today's Turkey). He was exiled from his city after having conspired against the Persian rule, and went to Samos. Herodotus was to make journeys to places like Asia Minor, Babylonia, Egypt and Greece during his lifetime, and he wrote about the different people and cultures he met. It was Herodotus who was the first person to speak about the idea of the free men of the west against the slaves of the east. At the age of about 37 he went to Athens, and won the admiration of many people, including Pericles and his good friend Sophocles. A few years later he settled in southern Italy, in the Greek colony Thurii. He was to spent the rest of his life working on his History, which describes the history and civilization of the ancient world. Herodotus tried to achieve objectivity and tried to separate what he held for true and what he thought was unprobable. He founded the grounds for historiography in trying to draw moral lessons from various events, showing for example how the gods punish the arrogant. Webmistress V.E.K. Sandels

78. An Account Of Egypt By Herodotus - Project Gutenberg Etext at Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2131

Main Page Mobile Version Search Start Page Offline Catalogs My Bookmarks ... Donate to PG An Account of Egypt by Herodotus Bibrec Download QR Code Twitter Bibliographic Record Author Herodotus, 480? BCE-420? BCE Translator Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915 Title An Account of Egypt Language English LoC Class AC: General Works: Collections, Series, Collected works, Pamphlets Subject Voyages and travels Category Text EBook-No. Release Date Feb 26, 2006 Public domain in the USA. Downloads Related Books Readers also downloaded… Read This Book Online Read this ebook online... Download This eBook Available Formats Format Size Mirror Sites HTML 222 kB mirror sites EPUB 94 kB Kindle 146 kB Plucker 115 kB QiOO Mobile 138 kB Plain Text UTF-8 219 kB More Files… mirror sites QR Code If you scan this code with your mobile phone and appropriate software installed, it will open the phone browser to the mobile version of this page. Explain this Twitter (experimental) to hear about new ebooks posted at Project Gutenberg. or to hear what Project Gutenberg says.

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