herodotus in English
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1. However, at the same time, Diodorus distances himself from Herodotus and argues that Herodotus "only tells fairy tales and entertaining fiction".
2. Herodotus provides the first detailed description of the Scythians.
3. According to Herodotus, Cambyses was "a man of good family and quiet habits".
4. Herodotus, like Homer, has a denotative as well as a Connotative use
5. Herodotus, The Histories, I. See original text in the Sacred Texts.
6. The oldest information on mastic comes from Herodotus, Greek historian of the fifth century B.C.E.
7. Herodotus said that anyone killing a falcon in Egypt, even though accidentally, was put to death.
8. Cheops, in Herodotus, the name of the king who built the Great Pyramid in Egypt
9. Herodotus (III, 94) later refers to the Moschi and the Tibareni in the same manner.
10. 16 Herodotus described auctions held in ancient Babylon to sell young maidens of marriageable age.
11. The account was elaborated upon by Herodotus and is also mentioned in parts of the Hebrew Bible.
12. In 400 BC, Herodotus listed wet and dry Cupping as a treatment for many ailments includ …
13. Herodotus refers to the Arabs in the Sinai, southern Palestine, and the frankincense region (Southern Arabia).
14. Xenophon’s account differs somewhat as to details but contains the same basic elements as that of Herodotus.
15. Herodotus claimed that there were, in total, 2.6 million military personnel, accompanied by an equivalent number of support personnel.
16. Herodotus reports that Scythians used cannabis, both to weave their clothing and to cleanse themselves in its smoke (Hist.
17. According to Herodotus, Queen Artemisia of Caria pointed this out to Xerxes in the run-up to Salamis.
18. Herodotus observed that the Egyptians were the only people to keep their animals with them in their houses.
19. (Esther 1:1, 2) According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the king shed tears as he viewed his men.
20. Herodotus, an ancient Greek historian described Indian cotton as "a wool exceeding in beauty and goodness that of sheep".
21. Herodotus writes that Croesus’ reign came to an abrupt end when he was defeated by the Persian King Cyrus the Great
22. Greek historian Herodotus reports that Egyptian authorities purchased enormous quantities of onions, radishes, and garlic to feed their pyramid-building slaves.
23. In the time of Herodotus (about 450 BC), their judicial functions had been restricted to cases dealing with heiresses, adoptions and the public roads.
24. Herodotus reported that the Spartans used the feigned-retreat tactic at the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BCE) to defeat a force of Persian Immortals.
25. ORIENTAL WOMEN EDWARD BAGBY POLLARD And he called Herodotus a thief and a Beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes
26. Carian: irow pikraś k̂i semwś mnoś mwdonś k̂i English: Irou, (husband) of Pikra, the son of Semw, the mwdon-Quotes about the Carians Herodotus - 5th century BC
27. Behemoth, a spirit of the desert, possibly derives from the Egyptian for “water buffalo” or from the Egyptian deity, Taueret, about whom the Greek historian, Herodotus, wrote
28. Herodotus recounts that, according to the Athenians, as the battle began the Corinthians hoisted their sails and began sailing away from the battle, northwards up the straits.
29. The names Geleontes (Γελέοντες), Hopletes (Ὅπλητες), Argades (Ἀργάδεις), Aegicores (Αἰγικορεῖς), are said by Herodotus to have been derived from the sons of Ion, son of Xuthus
30. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus implied that Pheidon flourished about 600 bc, but at this time Corinth and Sicyon, not the Argives, were in the ascendance.
31. As with some other early Greek philosophers, Anaxagoras’ views seem to have been known to Herodotus, and are reflected in some of the works of Euripides and in Aristophanes’ Clouds
32. The ancient Greek historians Herodotus and Eudoxus of Rhodes related the Armenians to the Phrygians —who entered Asia Minor from Thrace —and to the peoples of the ancient kingdom upon …
33. According to Herodotus, popular legend was that Athenian women began to wear the Chiton as opposed to the peplos after several women stabbed a messenger to death with the
34. Furthermore, it is interesting to observe that one of the first uses of the word Amphibolia, in Herodotus, for example, was in a strategic sense and meant "to be …
35. The historian Herodotus wrote: “They fill the cavity with the purest bruised myrrh, with cassia, and every other sort of spicery except frankincense, and sew up the opening.”
36. Living in the fifth century B.C.E., Herodotus recorded that the Magi belonged to a Persian priestly class who specialized in astrology, interpretation of dreams, and casting of spells.
37. Fifth century B.C.E. historian Herodotus tells of a “most shameful custom” of the Babylonians, namely, that all women are required to prostitute themselves in homage to their goddess of love.
38. Nevertheless, Thucydides chose to begin his history where Herodotus left off (at the Siege of Sestos) and felt Herodotus's history was accurate enough not to need re-writing or correcting.
39. According to Herodotus, in the time of the Ionian Revolt (499 BC) the Cappadocians were reported as occupying a region from Mount Taurus to the vicinity of the Euxine (Black Sea)
40. By the age of eight he had read Aesop's Fables , Xenophon 's Anabasis , and the whole of Herodotus , and was acquainted with Lucian , Diogenes Laërtius , Isocrates and six dialogues of Plato (see his Autobiography).
41. As far back as the 8th Century BC the Carian fighting fleet was a feared and respected force, though there is a curious tale told by Herodotus that rather confounds this apparent fame
42. If one adheres to the ships being anchored as described by Herodotus, one has to take into account that each bridge together with the space required for the anchor ropes would have occupied a strip up to 900 m wide.
43. More than 4000 years ago, according to Herodotus and Diodorus Siculus, asphalt was used in the construction of the walls and towers of Babylon; there were oil pits near Ardericca (near Babylon), and a pitch spring on Zacynthus.
44. Croesus (/ˈkriːsəs/ KREE-səs; Ancient Greek: Κροῖσος , Kroisos; 595 BC – date of death unknown) was the king of Lydia who, according to Herodotus, reigned for 14 years: from 560 BC until his defeat by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 546 BC (sometimes given as 547 BC).
45. μόνη, μόνης, ἡ (μένω) (from Herodotus down), a staying, Abiding, dwelling, abode: John 14:2; μόνην ποιεῖν (L T Tr WH ποιεῖσθαι, as in Thucydides 1, 131; Josephus, Antiquities 8, 13, 7; 13, 2, 1), to make an (one's) abode, παρά τίνι metaphorically, of God and Christ by their power and spirit exerting
46. While it has been suggested that Herodotus or his sources had access to official Persian Empire records of the forces involved in the expedition, modern scholars tend to reject these figures based on knowledge of the Persian military systems, their logistical capabilities, the Greek countryside, and supplies available along the army's route.
47. STRONGS NT 1167: δειλία δειλία, δειλίας, ἡ (δειλός), timidity, fearfullness, Cowardice: 2 Timothy 1:7.(Sophocles (Herodotus), Euripides, (Aristophanes), Thucydides, and subsequent writings.)[SYNONYMS: δειλία, φόβος, εὐλάβεια: "of these three words the first is used always in a bad sense; the second is a middle term, capable of a good
48. The Bibliographical test compares the closeness of the New Testament’s oldest extant manuscripts to the date of its autographs (the original handwritten documents) and the sheer number of the New Testament’s extant manuscripts with the number and earliness of extant manuscripts of other ancient documents such as Homer, Aristotle, and Herodotus.
49. According to the Greek historian Herodotus, the Persian Shah Xerxes once boasted, "The Sun shall not shine on no land that is not our own." This would be no empty boast, given the immense power controlled by the Achaemenids, who are by far the greatest power of the known world.
50. Herodotus' account of Croesus (from the Perseus Project): see 1.6-94; contains links Croesus was the son of Alyattes II and continued the conquest of Ionian cities of Asia Minor that his father had began to both English and Greek versions; An in-depth account of Croesus' life, by Carlos Parada; Livius, Croesus by Jona Lendering