Herodotus
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Herodotus was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the
A Roman copy (2nd century AD) of a Greek bust of Herodotus from the first half of the 4th century BC
Romanticised statue of Herodotus in his hometown of Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum, Turkey
Histories (Herodotus)
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The Histories of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Although it is not an impartial record, it remains one of the West's most important sources. It established
Herodotus
…Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, among other subjects such as the rise of the Achaemenid dynasty of Cyrus. He has been described as "The…
Fragment from Histories, Book VIII on 2nd-century Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 2099
Edwin Long's 1875 interpretation of The Babylonian Marriage Market as described by Herodotus in Book 1 of the Histories
Nile crocodile allowing the trochilus to eat leeches in its mouth. Drawing by Henry Scherren, 1906
Scythian warriors, drawn after figures on an electrum cup from the Kul'Oba kurgan burial near Kerch (Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg)