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	Herodotus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡροδοτος, Herodotos) was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca.
		Herodotus has passed to us information current in his own day: he reports that the annual flooding of the Nile was said to be the result of melting snows far to the south, and comments that he cannot understand how there can be snow in the hottest part of the world.
		Herodotus mentions an interview with an informant in Sparta, and almost certainly he lived for a period in Athens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Herodotus (1070 words)

	Histories (Herodotus) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus here displays his enquiry, so that human achievements may not become forgotten in time, and great and marvellous deeds – some displayed by Greeks, some by barbarians – may not be without their glory; and especially to show why the two peoples fought with each other.
		The rise of the Persian Empire is chronicled, and the causes for the conflict with Greece.
		Herodotus treats the conflict as an ideological one, frequently contrasting the absolute power of the Persian king with the democratic government of the Greeks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Histories_of_Herodotus (1865 words)

	Herodotus of Halicarnassus
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus hereby publishes the results of his enquiries, hoping to do two things: to preserve the memory of the past by putting on record the astonishing achievements both of the Greek and the non-Greek peoples; and more particularly, to show how the two races came into conflict.
		Herodotus' description of Babylon is hardly accurate indeed, but -after all- he had to write his tale many years after he had visited the place, and he never had the comfort of a map.
		Since it is -according to Herodotus- well-known that the sources of the Danube are in the far West, in the Pyrenees, he is positive that the sources of the Nile must be in the Atlas mountains.
	www.cam-info.net /enc/herodotus.html (6301 words)

	Herodotus
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum in Turkey) was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (485 BC?
		Herodotus wrote a history of the Persian invasion of Greece in the early fifth century B.C., known simply as The Histories of Herodotus.
		A reconstructed portrait of Herodotus by Marco Bakker: Reportret: Herodotos.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/he/herodotus.html (928 words)

	Herodotus
		The Greek researcher and storyteller Herodot or Herodotus of Halicarnassus the son of Lyxes and Dryo and the nephew of an epic poet named Panyassis, born between 500-470 BC (probably 480 BC) and died between 429-413 BC, was the world's first historian.
		In the Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses and Darius the Great, culminating in king Xerxes' expedition in 480 BC against the Greeks, which met with disaster in the naval engagement at Salamis and the battles at Plataea and Mycale.
		Herodotus wrote the first scientific history (probably between 450 – 430 BC); that is, he began by asking questions, rather than just telling what he thinks he knows.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Live/Writer/Herodotus.htm (281 words)

	Herodotus of Halicarnassus
		The Greek researcher and storyteller Herodotus of Halicarnassus (fifth century BCE) was the world's first historian.
		In The Histories, he describes the expansion of the Achaemenid empire under its kings Cyrus the Great, Cambyses and Darius I the Great, culminating in king Xerxes' expedition in 480 BCE against the Greeks, which met with disaster in the naval engagement at Salamis and the battles at Plataea and Mycale.
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus hereby publishes the results of his inquiries, hoping to do two things: to preserve the memory of the past by putting on record the astonishing achievements both of the Greek and the non-Greek peoples; and more particularly, to show how the two races came into conflict.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/herodotus/herodotus01.htm (387 words)

	Context: Herodotus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Because of this last element in Herodotus’ work, he has from time to time throughout history been criticized for a lack of focus, a lack of truthfulness, or a failure to keep his “history” rational and objective.
		For Herodotus, it seems, not only are factual accounts valuable for uncovering the past, but false beliefs are also, because they too can influence how human beings interact with each other.
		Herodotus spent the last years of his life in the Greek colony of Thurii, in southern Italy (see Suda eta,536).
	www.stoa.org /projects/demos/author_Herodotus?greekEncoding=UnicodeC (568 words)

	Herodotus introduction
		Herodotus the person: Herodotus of Halicarnassus: Halicarnassus was a city of mixed Greek and Carian stock on the coast Asia Minor.
		Halicarnassus fought on the side of the Persians (Xerxes) under command of Artemisia, their queen.His birth date is uncertain but 485 is a best guess.
		Herodotus would not pass muster as a modern historian: his chronology is not always accurate, he may not grasp military strategy and politics well, he gives too much emphasis to personalities, he is gullible, he has no focus, he makes up speeches, and he has a religious philosophy behind his history.
	www.uvm.edu /~jbailly/courses/clas21/notes/herodotusintroduction.html (3414 words)

	Hisoria - Volume 8, Issue 3
		Thus Herodotus is deemed "the father of historiography." Indeed, for he was among the first who sought to record events the way they actually transpired and to critically weigh his sources of information.
		Herodotus is great not only because he is the father of historiography, but because of the events he recorded and the manner in which he researched and recorded them.
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus chronicled the rise of Persia to a preeminence the world had never before witnessed.
	www.credenda.org /issues/8-3historia.php (778 words)

	Herodotus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Herodotus (Greek: ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ, Herodotos) was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC - c.
		His invention earned him the title "The Father of History" and the word he used for his achievement, historie, which previously had meant simply "research", passed into Latin as historia and took on its modern connotation of "history" or "story".
		Conversely, however, many historians and philosophers who take a more sceptical view of Herodotus' accounts and narratives have a different name for him, dubbing him "The Father of Lies." or "the deceiver." Recent archaeology has begun to prove his Histories were largely accurate.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Herodotus.htm (1091 words)

	Herodotus's Audience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This claim is very damning to the veracity of Herodotus who, we are led to believe, created a fictitious account of an individual for the purpose of satisfying his audience’s preconceptions of what Themistocles was really like.
		It could be objected that Herodotus serialised various parts of his work, and it is not impossible that he read excerpts from his book, but his work is undoubtedly designed with a sense of unity in mind.
		Herodotus knew that his work must be written down, as he could not expect it to survive in the same way as Homer’s works.
	www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk /Dissertation/Audience.htm (1360 words)

	Directory - Arts: Classical Studies: Greek: Herodotus
		Herodotus Commentary · cached · Includes full texts of Herodotus, model essays and commentaries by John Kitson, maps, and general information.
		Herodotus on the Web · cached · Annotated guide and web directory to Herodotus of Halicarnassus and his times.
		Herodotus [U. of Saskatchewan] · Historical background, the relationship between Herodotus' history and myth, the political situation, and his contemporary historians and logographers.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=326454 (198 words)

	Herodotus The History Summary
		Herodotus tries in 700 pages to sum up all that a well-informed Greek such as himself could learn about the real world, at least its geography, nations, cultures, flora and fauna, and mythical origins.
		Yet much of what he describes has apparently stood the test of time, particularly when it is recognized that Herodotus places great emphasis on the importance of myth as a shaper of civilizations, regardless of its objective "truth".
		His descriptions of ancient and extraordinarily diverse cultures are remarkably detailed and just plain fun to read, and in many instances, are the only source of written knowledge left for future generations.
	www.mcgoodwin.net /pages/otherbooks/herodotus.html (2721 words)

	Humbul full record view for -- Herodotus on the web
		The resource is associated with a major online book sellers, to whose site the reader is frequently referred, and commercial pop-ups are common, but there is much of academic interest here for the critical undergraduate student of classics, ancient history or general historiography.
		The 'Inquiries' or 'Histories' of Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484-404 BC), regarded as the 'Father of History', is the first extant prose work of ancient Greek literature and a fundamental source of the narrative history of Greece and the Near East between the 7th and the 5th centuries BC.
		Herodotus has enjoyed widespread interest (though not universal praise) since antiquity and his views on, for example, Egypt, Scythia, ancient geography or languages, have influenced all subsequent discourse, themes which are well reflected on this resource.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /output/full2.php?id=11808 (182 words)

	Learn more about Herodotus in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Learn more about Herodotus in the online encyclopedia.
		He wrote a history of the Persian invasion of Greece in the early fifth century B.C., known simply as The Histories of Herodotus.
		As to Herodotus' life, we know that he was exiled from Halicarnassus after his involvement in an unsuccessful putsch against the ruling dynasty, and he withdrew to the island of Samos.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /h/he/herodotus.html (887 words)

	Herodotus of Halicarnassus - Andamooka Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		As to Herodotus' life, we know that he was exiled from Halicarnassus after an unsuccessful putsch against the ruling dynasty in which he was involved, and he withdrew to the island of Samos.
		These journeys took him to Egypt, as far south as the First Cataract, to Babylon, to the Ukraine, and to Italy and Sicily.
		in the instep of Italy in 444 B.C.E., Herodotus became a colonist.
	www.andamooka.org /reader.pl?pgid=nupediaherodotusofhalicarnassus (634 words)

	Herodotus' Histories: the 28 logoi
		The Histories are the account of the researches done by the Greek author Herodotus of Halicarnassus (c.480-c.429).
		Our division of Herodotus' Histories in nine 'books' goes back to an edition by third century BCE scholars, working in the great library of Alexandria.
		This overview of the contents of Herodotus' Histories is essentially based on Silvana Cagnazzi's article 'Tavola dei 28 logoi di Erodoto' in the journal Hermes 103 (1975), page 385-423, except for book three.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/herodotus/logoi.html (215 words)

	Who is Herodotus? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		THESE are the researches of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, which he publishes, in the hope of...
		Some authors would have us believe that Herodotus did not go to every place he would have us believe that he has visited, such as Egypt.
		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.
	www.herodotuswebsite.co.uk /Whohe.htm (388 words)

	Herodotus.: free web books, online
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a Greek historian of the 5th century BC.
		The history of Herodotus, translated by George Rawlinson [ read
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	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /h/herodotus (322 words)

	Herodotus, excerpts from The Histories (ca
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus (a Greek polis in Asia Minor), excerpts from The Histories (ca.
		For what harmed them the most was the fact that they wore no armor over their clothes and fought, as it were, naked against men fully armed.
		This translation is partially from http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with modifications based on R. Waterfield, Herodotus The Histories (Oxford: 1998).
	www.luc.edu /faculty/ldossey/Herodotus.htm (2031 words)

	Amazon.com: The Histories (Oxford World's Classics): Books: Herodotus,Robin Waterfield,Carolyn Dewald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Here are presented the results of the enquiry carried out by Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
		One important reason is that the author, Herodotus, is really attractive to me. He is the type of person I want to make friend with: Kind, humorous, fair, honest, and most important of all, he possessed the holy curiosity about the wrold around him.
		Herodotus is classic of this type of historical writing.
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	Classics 250: Herodotus
		In addition, we will discuss Herodotus' ethical views and their political consequences, since these are at the center of his work.
		Finally, an important aim of the course will be to read as much ancient Greek prose as possible: Herodotus is a founder of ancient Greek prose writing: knowledge of his style was considered essential knowledge for all Greek writers for many centuries.
		Reading Herodotus therefore has the extra benefit of founding one's knowledge of Greek prose in general.
	www.wooster.edu /classics/syllabi/herodotus.html (1117 words)

	Letters to Dead Authors - IV. To Herodotus - Andrew Lang - Read Print
		concerning Herodotus was a priest, and dwelt in the priests' city on the river
		Herodotus, he said, was chiefly concerned to steal the lore of those who came
		And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and 'the same with intent to
	www.readprint.com /chapter-6826/Andrew-Lang (1921 words)

	5. Greek History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus here gives the results of his researches, so that the events of human history may not dade with time and the notable achievements both of Greeks and of foreigners may not lack their due fame; and, among other things, to show why these people came to make war on one another.
		I shall proceed with my history, which will be no less concerned with unimportant cities than with the great.
		What is Herodotus' approach to the writing of history?
	www.ualberta.ca /~kmacfarl/CLASS_221/5.Herodotus1.html (302 words)

	Herodotus on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Welcome to Herodotus on the Web, a guide and web directory to Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the famous Greek historian.
		These includes texts and translations, books about Herodotus, essays and articles, and so forth (a full list is given to your left).
		I have attempted to organize these resources well, describe their contents and evaluate their readability and value as scholarship.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /herodotus (198 words)

	Ancient Egypt, Greece & Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
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		This site contains essays on ancient history, links to archeological digs, and information on Latin language, (Latin dictionaries, phrases and proverbs), a list of classical and archaeological organizations, and encyclopedias.
	nefer-seba.net /essays/herodotus-vs-thucydides (171 words)

	History of Herodotus by Herodotus
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		According to the Persians best informed in history, the Phoenicians began to quarrel.
	www.4literature.net /Herodotus/History_of_Herodotus (980 words)

	Herodotus
		This is the publication of the research of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that the actions of people shall not fade with time, so that the great and admirable monuments produced by both Greeks and barbarians shall not go unrenowned, and, among other things, to set forth the reasons why they waged war on each other.
		Persian storytellers say that the Phoenicians were the cause of the dispute, for they came from the so-called Red Sea to our sea, inhabited the territory they now live in, and immediately set forth on long voyages.
		After Croesus said this, Cyrus untied him, gave him a seat near himself, and treated him with special respect — both he and everyone around him marveled at the sight of the man. But Croesus was silent, deep in thought...
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