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	Electronic Antiquities Volume III, Number 7
		Herodotos remarks on the suddenness of nightfall that intervened upon the battle.
		Herodotos then garbled this account owing to his assumption that the reported eclipse phenomenon was a solar eclipse.
		Herodotos, it seems, re ported a battle from annals for the summer of 587 shrouded in omens; the report was compiled from accurate sources, but Herodotos did not fully understand the nature of the omen.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/ElAnt/V3N7/worthen.html (5128 words)

	Herodotos - Wikipedia
		Herodotos Halikarnassosest (umbes 484-umbes 425 e.m.a.), kreeka ajalooane, tõenäoliselt Kaaria päritolu.
		Herodotos on selles kirjeldanud alates ajaloolisest ajast Vanade Idamaade (despootliku Aasia) ja Kreeka orjandusriikide (Euroopa) vahelisi kokkupõrkeid, mille harupunktiks oli Kreeka-Pärsia sõjad; mütoloogiliselt sündmused on välja jäetu.
		Herodotos on kasutanud oma eelkäijate (logograafide, eelkõige Hekataiose) töid, käsitlenud neid üksikasjalikult ja kriitiliselt.
	et.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herodotos (283 words)

	History of Iran: The Persian Wars
		Herodotos was not contemporary with the events he described and, hence, had to rely on opinions, reactions, and interpretations of witnesses.
		Herodotos likes to quote anecdotes and it may well be granted that all anecdotes are likely to be spurious; but this does not imply that he indulges in mentioning facts that are recognizably false.
		Concerning the Skythian part of Herodotos, Hauvette introduced a method of interpretation that is now generally accepted: the human geography must be separated from the mathematical geography; whereas the former is acceptable, the latter is unacceptable because it is based on numerical data that are precise and hence must be impossible.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/articles/persian_wars1.php (4031 words)

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		Herodotos knows this; but he deliberately fails to report it: his euphemia, a desire not to offend the powerful, and his consciousness of the story of his Histories, the Athenian liberation and salvation of Hellas, cause him to suppress the particulars of Athenian-Macedonian medism c.511-479.
		Herodotos' liberators undergo a period of "slavery" prior to their acts and ascension to positions of hegemony; Athens is no different.
		Hornblower's explanation: Herodotos did not mention the war because he "was not a systematic writer and did not offer a linear account of the archaic age." Because Herodotos neglected it, so did Thucydides, who had no use for it in demonstrating that the Peloponnesian War was the biggest of all time ("Introduction," 59).
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmcr/bmcr-9512-rosenbloom-greek.txt (3346 words)

	Spartan Women in Herodotos
		Herodotos also alludes to the fact that Gorgo was a fixture in the Spartan court: ‘Cleomenes told him to say what he wished and not to mind the child.’ Kleomenes is said to have heeded the advice of his daughter and did not continue the conversation with Aristagoras.
		Herodotos states, ‘The relatives of the second wife made a great fuss when they heard the news, and maintained--what was quite untrue--that she was pretending to be pregnant for the sake of her reputation, and meant to pass off a suppositious baby as her own’ (5.41).
		However, Herodotos states: ‘Actually, of course, she knew perfectly well which was which, and only pretended not to, in the hope that both of them might somehow be made kings’ (6.52).
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Aegean/7849/herodotos.html (1588 words)

	History of Iran: The Persian Wars
		Herodotos reports that the King of Persia, after he had brought his army from Asia to Europe on two pontoon bridges thrown across the sea at the Hellespont, proceeded to a muster of the army and the navy at Doriskos, near the present Graeco-Turkish frontier.
		Herodotos reckons that since for each combatant there was at least one non-combatant campfollower or supply man, the total of the army on foot must have been about 3,400,000 men.
		There are indications in Herodotos that the doubling of the army and of the fleet was an idea of the King, and that it was opposed by his uncle Artabanos, the brother of the late king Dareios, and Xerxes' main military advisor.
	www.iranchamber.com /history/articles/persian_wars5.php (3702 words)

	Thales of Miletos
		Herodotos, indeed, disbelieves the story that he diverted the course of the Halys;2 but he does not attack it on the ground of any antecedent improbability, and it is quite clear that those who reported it found no difficulty in accepting the relation which it presupposes between the philosopher and the king.
		Herodotos probably mentions the supposed descent of Thales simply because he was believed to have introduced certain improvements in navigation from Phoenicia.1 At any rate, the name Examyes, which his father bore, lends no support to the view that he was a Semite.
		Herodotos makes about Thales is that he foretold the eclipse of the sun which put an end to the war between the Lydians and the Medes.3 Now, we may be sure that he was quite ignorant of the true cause of eclipses.
	philoctetes.free.fr /thalesofmiletos.html (3855 words)

	Waters HDT, Intro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Herodotos should be read carefully before starting on this book; but it is not necessary to read him from cover to cover, for a random dipping will enable people to enjoy the brilliance of his narrative and the flavour of his descriptions of the exotic.
		Herodotos of Halikarnassos here shows forth his inquiry, aimed both at preventing the history of mankind becoming erased by the passage of time, and at preserving the fame of mighty and marvellous works on the part of both Hellenes and barbarians; and in particular the cause of the warfare between them.
		Herodotos is not ashamed to admit that he has been unable to ascertain the exact truth, nor that he cannot confidently attribute a precise cause.
	luna.cas.usf.edu /~murray/classes/hdt-sem/waters01.htm (5113 words)

	Roddy Nilsson, Recension av Herodotos Historia
		Herodotos Historia inskränker sig heller inte till att handla om historia i vår gängse mening utan består av en rik blandning geografiska, etnologiska, historiska och moraliska reflektioner och iakttagelser.
		Herodotos har ansetts vara den förste författaren som uppvisar ett genuint och äkta intresse för andra folk än det egna, och han tycks aldrig ha förtröttats i att samla anekdoter och uppgifter om de främmande folkens seder och bruk.
		Herodotos är naturligtvis präglad av sin tid i det att det också hos honom finns en föreställning om en grundläggande kulturell skillnad mellan grekerna och andra folk.
	www.hum.vxu.se /publ/humanetten/nummer7/rec0005.html (614 words)

	Ancient History Bulletin 3, 1989: Regionalism in Classical Athens?, Konrad H. Kinzl
		All Herodotos needed to know was that three men named Megakles, Lykourgos, and Peisistratos, were engaged in some kind of political struggle.
		Herodotos’ sixth-century activities all seem to occur in the vicinity of the city.
		Herodotos accordingly portrays the actions of Megakles, Lykourgos, and Peisistratos, as stasis (using the terms current in the 45Os-420s), which he places in exactly the same regions in which at least near-staseis occurred during his own age.
	www.trentu.ca /ahc/ahb-3-1b.html (1697 words)

	Who is Who in Ancient Egypt: Herodotos
		Born in Halicarnassos somewhere between 490 and 480 BC, Herodotos travelled throughout the Antique World and visited Egypt extensively at around 450 BC, when the country was under Persian domination.
		Herodotos mainly visited the North of Egypt, the Delta, where there were some Greek collonies, and Memphis.
		Herodotos' value lies in the fact that he tried to accurately describe what he saw in Egypt during his travels.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /glossary/people/herodotos.html (323 words)

	K.H. Kinzl, Archaic Greek Tyranny Reconsidered
		Herodotos’ words also ought not to be used to justify the classification of Pheidon as a Tyrant because of the Olympic incident.
		Herodotos devotes to digressions to him: 5,67-68 and 6,126-130; the latter offers the tale of the competition for the hand of his daughter, whilst the former, the central motif of which is represented by the phylai reform of Kleisthenes, is the by far more complex entity.
		Herodotos’ account of his reforms paint Kleisthenes as one who plans with determination and circumspection and whose acts are subservient to the common weal of his polis.
	www.trentu.ca /ahc/ajahtyr.htm (8665 words)

	K.H. Kinzl, "... exiles of the Alkmeonidai", RhM 119 (1976) 311-314
		Herodotos, if he had stopped to think, would have realized that this does not agree with what he had uncovered about the admittedly ill-fated alliance between Megakles and Peisistratos (1,60f.), but the purpose of 6,121ff.
		If Herodotos had meant to say that 'the Alkmeonidai were in exile for the entire time under Peisistratos (which incidentally Herodotos could not have believed himself, see 1,60f.) and the Peisistratidai', he simply failed to do so.
		If Herodotos contended that all Alkmeonidai were in exile throughout the tyranny of the Peisistratidai, then he most certainly was either misinformed himself, or he himself endeavoured to misinform his audience.
	www.trentu.ca /ahc/rhmalk.htm (1304 words)

	Scythian and Spartan Analogies in Herodotos' Representation
		Herodotos and his Greek informants (we do not know if Herodotos had any opportunity to interview native Scythians, but if he did, he certainly did it in Greek, and then the discourse remained Greek anyway) would necessarily express the Scythian culture within the framework of Greek ideology.
		Herodotosâ story about the young Scythian menâs encounter with the Amazons has a lot in common with the mythology, which supports the rite of passage of the young Spartan girls (young men raping dancing girls), and the goddess protecting this rite of passage, Artemis, is the prototype of all Amazons
		Herodotos states that the lineage of the Heraklids stemming from Herakles and a slave girl ruled Sardeis successively for twenty-two generations, or 550 years, until being overthrown by Kroisosâ ancestor Gyges.
	herodot.georgehinge.com /analog.html (6031 words)

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		Niebuhr argued that Herodotos' account of this battle is irrational, because it is obvious that the main concern of the Persians, after they had seized Athens and the Greeks had concentrated their forces at the Isthmus of Corinth, should have been to attack the Peloponnese by sea.
		According to Aischylos (The Persians) and to Herodotos, the Persian force that attacked at Salamis suffered disaster, but in spite of it the Greeks were expecting a new attack by the Persian fleet (Herodotos VIII 97) and were surprised when this fleet was withdrawn (VIII 107, 108).
		According to Herodotos, the Ionians with the Dorians of Asia Minor and the Karians contributed a squadron of 200 triremes to the original strength of the fleet, whereas the Phoenicians had contributed 300 triremes.
	www.metrum.org /perwars/salamis.htm (2245 words)

	12 (Geografiens och de geografiska upptäckternas historia)
		Herodotos är den förste som omtalar Indien, hvilket redan nu är ett undrens land.
		Före Herodotos hade geograferna blott lämnat en färglös förteckning på namn af olika slag.
		Herodotos är den förste, som verkligen också beskrifver hvad han omtalar och därvid visar han sig äga en öppen blick för folks och länders egendomligheter.
	www.runeberg.org /geohist/0020.html (476 words)

	The Benu bird of Heliopolis
		Let´s say this first; Herodotos was a stranger to the Egyptian way of thinking and interpreted what he heard and saw according to his own cultural conditioning.
		It´s easy to see how Herodotos mixed what he was told with elements of the myth of the Phoenix, which was known to him from other ancient authors.
		Herodotos tells us nothing about his priest-informants, if they were well-educated and highly placed in the temple hierarchy, or if they were young acolytes with not much knowledge of the sacred texts.
	www.philae.nu /Philae/Benu.html (1374 words)

	NSW HSC ONLINE - Ancient History
		Herodotos (I. 189) says that it was in the basin of Gyndes (a tributary of the Tigris).
		But Herodotos seems genuinely surprised that the defenders of the great walls of Babylon were not used to trap and destroy the army of Cyrus (I, 191), and more so that there should be religious festivals distracting the defenders.
		If he is right, then either the priests were so concerned with maintaining the deity status of their cult statues, that a mere invading army was irrelevant; or someone (possibly Gubaru) had persuaded them to support Cyrus, and they were deliberately distracting the defenders.
	hsc.csu.edu.au /ancient_history/historical_periods/near_east/persian_per/persianperiod.html (1382 words)

	Sedlar
		Herodotos, however, already used the term in a wider sense to denote the whole country; and classical Greek usage followed his example.
		Herodotos' notions of geography were understandably inaccurate: for instance his belief that the Indus flows eastward, and that India constitutes the easternmost inhabited region of Asia, with only desert wastes beyond.
		Herodotos himself gives evidence of how foreign contacts might produce a relativistic point of view: he notes that while each nation possesses its own customs, each also considers its own to be superior.
	www.adolphus.nl /xcrpts/xcsedlar.html (20522 words)

	Reportret: Herodotos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tijdens zijn leven zag Herodotos (*484–†425 vgt, ‘Herodotus’ is de Latijnse versie) veel van de wereld die toen bij de Grieken bekend was.
		Herodotos moet een rijk man zijn geweest, want de reizen die hij maakte waren duur en hij had blijkbaar zijn handen vrij om zich met zijn tijdrovende onderzoek bezig te houden.
		Herodotos behoorde dus duidelijk tot de bovenlaag van de samenleving en zijn uiterlijk zal daarbij hebben gepast.
	www.reportret.info /nl/galerij/herodotos1.html (916 words)

	Waters, HDT, Chpt. 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tradition indeed tells of such public 'lectures' by Herodotos himself, at Athens and elsewhere, though by the late fifth century written books had become more familiar objects, and the nature of his composition was not so well suited as verse for oral delivery.
		Undoubtedly Herodotos did not wish the publication of his work to be confined by dialectical boundaries, and many scholars have thought the Athenians an audience he had particularly in mind.
		Herodotos, it seems, had a crop for any corn, or to put it rather better, all was grist to his mill, and we can be sure that he was extremely receptive to all kinds of artistic and intellectual influence.
	luna.cas.usf.edu /~murray/classes/hdt-sem/waters02.htm (3319 words)

	307 (Hellas. De gamla grekernas land och folk)
		Berättelsen är skrifven med en oefterhärmlig enkelhet och Herodotos' sannfärdighet är ställd utom allt tvifvel, der han beskrifver hvad han sjelf sett, utforskat och upplefvat, men der lian upptager fremmande berättelser, der angifver han alltid tillika deras större eller mindre trovärdighet.
		På samma gång som Herodotos lade grund till historieskrifningen, utvidgade och förbättrade han äfven sin tids dermed sammanhängande geografiska föreställningar.
		Genom Herodotos indrogs det aflägsna Indien med Indus inom föreställningarnas krets, tillades den arabiska viken och det ery-thräiska hafvet samt uppfattades mera noga Europas kustformer ända till den norrut belägna ön Thule, hvilken ansågs såsom verldens slut.
	www.runeberg.org /hellas/0319.html (460 words)

	Kheops - History
		Herodotos’ account of thousands of slaves labouring for 20 years to build this monument, is now seen as incorrect.
		It is now accepted that the harder labour, such as moving and placing the granite and calcite blocks, was done by farmers during the annual 4-month inundation of the Nile.
		Recent discoveries have shown that they were housed and paid and that they were even buried near the pyramid of the king, so that they could be part of the king’s eternal life after death.
	www.ancient-egypt.org /kings/0402_kheops/history.html (492 words)

	Reportret: Herodotos
		During his life Herodotos (*484–†425 bce, ‘Herodotus’ is the Latin version) saw much of the world that was known to the Greeks at that time.
		Herodotos set himself up as a researcher and wrote — from his own observations, interviews with informants, tales, and written sources — an extensive account that came to be known as
		Herodotos must have been a rich man, for the voyages that he made were expensive and, apparently, he had no responsibilities that kept him from being occupied with his time-consuming research.
	www.reportret.info /gallery/herodotos1.html (924 words)

	Halicarnassus, birthplace of Heredotus, Bodrum is full of history
		Scholars believe that he does not mention anything beyond the date 430 BC and appears to be unaware of the destruction of the Aeginetans in 424 BC.
		The significance of Herodotos' history is twofold, first our knowledge of early history comes from his work »Historia« and second, he gives a wide picture of the social life with great detail.
		Leaving his homeland for good, Herodotos travelled all around Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, Iskhi, the Black Sea Region, the whole of Anatolia and Sicily, finally to settle in Samos.
	www.bodrumpages.com /English/herodotus.html (1485 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 94.10.21
		The oracles involving Kypselos of Corinth (Herodotos 5.92b.2-e.2) demonstrate that his tyranny's claimed initial object was to correct the injustice of the city's leaders, an object shared by other tyrants.
		(Really, how are Herodotos' personal experiences with tyranny and Athens' collective attitude toward it in the fifth century to be excluded as influential of his reporting of tyranny in general?) Herodotos' political nuances are of the fifth century B.C. after all, not of the seventh or sixth.
		Thus was Kleisthenes "represented" to Herodotos by Athenians of the fifth century and to us as tyrannical by Herodotos; that is how his actions seemed to the historian.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1994/94.10.21.html (3637 words)

	Ares in Asia Minor
		These Sidean dedications should be associated with an oracle of Ares mentioned by Herodotos (7.75-76) in his catalogue of Xerxes’ invasion force and other elements of the dedications strongly link them to other peculiarly Anatolian aspects of Ares’ cult in Southwest Asia Minor.
		These dedications would be inscrutably perplexing were it not for the account of Herodotos.
		Herodotos’ testimony indicates that the roots of Ares’ worship in Southern Asia Minor pre-date the Roman period by centuries.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/gonzales.html (448 words)

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		Herodotos, född ca 480 f.Kr., död ca 420 f.Kr., grekisk historieskrivare från Halikarnassos i Mindre Asien.
		Strängt taget behandlar det endast konflikten mellan greker och perser 499—478 f.Kr., men det är rikt på förklarande tillbakablickar, och Herodotos skildrar även andra länder och folk, t.ex.
	herodotos.exsudo.se (165 words)

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