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	Herodotus on the pharaohs
		Herodotus was born about 490 BCE at Halicarnassos in Carien and died in the late 420's.
		The chronology of Herodotus is at times rather shaky too, provided our identification of the kings is correct.
		Herodotus may have left out the less interesting parts of what he heard, after all he was telling stories and not compiling laundry lists for future historians.
	nefertiti.iwebland.com /herodotus (603 words)

	Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, by Jon D. Mikalson. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Herodotus did interview a few Greek participants in these wars,[9] but he was writing, at the least, a generation later than the events themselves, and enough time had elapsed for some facts to be lost and for legends to develop.
		Herodotus is thus a "late" source for the Persian Wars, from a time when the Greeks were "constructing" their history of these wars in various media.
		Herodotus could be extremely precise in his use of numbers, as when he described Polycrates' tunnel on Samos,[10] but virtually no modern scholar accepts Herodotus' claims that Xerxes' invasion force included 1,700,000 infantry, 80,000 cavalry (not counting camels and chariots), 1,207 triremes, and 3,000 other ships (7.59.3-60, 87, 89.1, 97).
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/mikalson_herodotus.html (3706 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 485 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 (271 words)

	Herodotus - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Herodotus (484?-425 bc), Greek historian, known as the father of history, born in Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey).
		Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek:, Herodotos Halikarnasseus) was a Dorian Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC–ca.
		The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature.
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	Herodotus of Halicarnassus
		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.
		These are the confident opening lines of Herodotus' Histories, and the Greeks who heard them must have been surprised.
	www.livius.org /he-hg/herodotus/herodotus01.htm (387 words)

	ongoing · Herodotus
		However, Herodotus has some serious fun with this; he starts at the beginning, explaining how the Persian Empire came to be, with pretty substantial tours through the history, customs, and legends of all the lands and peoples that went into it; and that's a lot of lands and peoples.
		Herodotus claims to have visited many of these places, and while later historians have cast doubt on some of these claims, it does seem likely that he did see something of Egypt and the lands around the Black Sea.
		Herodotus had a hometown-boy penchant for talking up the achievements of the Halicarnassians; this is pleasant in that we get the spotlight on one Artimesia, their queen, fighting for the Persians at Salamis, the only female commander (says Herodotus) there, and by his account a dashing figure.
	www.tbray.org /ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/Herodotus (1626 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Herodotus
		His History tells of the Persian Wars of the early 5th century BC, with an account of the earlier history of the Persian empire and its relations with the Greeks to explain the origins of the...
		Herodotus states that the city (called by the Greeks Daphnae) had a garrison of Psamtik's troops and, in the early 5th cent.
		The writings of Herodotus, who was born c.484 BC, are the great source of knowledge of the history of the wars.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Herodotus (770 words)

	Chapter 8
		The historiâ 'inquiry' that he says he is presenting in the prooemium of the Histories is not a public oral performance as such, but it is a public demonstration of an oral performance, by way of writing.
		As Herodotus declares in the prooemium, the apodeixis 'public presentation' of his Histories is for the purpose of ensuring that the great deeds performed by Hellenes and barbarians alike should not be akleâ 'without kleos'.
		Herodotus' overall narrative explains the cause of the Ionian Revolt, which ultimately provokes the Persian invasion of Hellas, as provoked in the first place by the 'enslavement' of the Hellenes of Asia (5.49.2-3).
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/nagy/PHTL/chapter8.html (6949 words)

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		Herodotus, The Histories of Herodotus; Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
		Herodotus the Greek historian and writer of the Histories who was known as the...
		HERODOTUS, the oldest Greek historian, and for this reason usually styled the "Father of History," was born in Halicarnassus, in Caria, 484...
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	History in Review - Herodotus: The Histories
		Herodotus chose this tack in order to ensure that his readers were familiar with both sides of the conflict, before actually getting involved in the actual story of the war.
		Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus, a Dorian Greek colony that was located in what is now Modern Turkey, and he is thought to have died in Thurii, a Greek colony that was located in Southern Italy.
		Herodotus was an eyewitness to many of the events discussed in this volume, and much of the narrative focuses on the people, places, and customs that he observed while on his travels.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /HIRherodotus.html (786 words)

	Herodotus in Africa
		Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus (modern Bodrun) on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, around 480BC, at a time when Halicarnassus was under the rule of a Persian Satrap, a woman named Artemisia.
		Herodotus provided such detail on the people of Africa that it is clear Egyptians of 450BC had extensive contact and knowledge of Africa as far as the western coast.
		Herodotus believed that the Colchians (southern Black Sea area) were introduced to Asia by Egyptian expansion as far as Thrace and Scythia because "they have fl skins and curly hair (not that that amounts to much, as other nations have the same)." [Herodotus, Histories, 167.] They also practised circumcision, unlike Mediterranean peoples of the time.
	courses.wcupa.edu /jones/his311/notes/herod.htm (1283 words)

	Herodotus and the City of Babylon
		Few would question the significance of Herodotus’ Histories as a whole; it provides a great number of fascinating accounts of the events and peoples of his time, and a portion of this work is dedicated to the city of Babylon.
		Herodotus says the temple consisted of eight levels, the top of which was a sacred ‘bedroom’ or chamber for the physical incarnation of the god Marduk.
		Herodotus follows with an account of the siege of the city, and its subsequent fall in 539 BC to the Persian king Cyrus.
	www.visopsys.org /andy/essays/herodotus-babylon.html (2475 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Persians, Herodotus, Amir Kasravi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		As such, one would expect Herodotus to have first-hand knowledge of Persian culture, which based on the standards of that era, was far from uncivilized.
		It is clear that Herodotus was knowledgeable of Persian culture and, being born in Halikaranossos a city then under Persian rule, was influenced by it.
		115-166), and 6, "Herodotus' Typology of Barbarism" (pp.
	www.iranian.com /History/2003/April/Persians/index/html (3548 words)

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		Since the purpose of Herodotus was to glorify human achievements, the fact that he dedicated an entire book to the Egyptians, their customs, and their history demonstrates his obvious esteem for the culture.
		Herodotus realized that there was no better way to describe something that his audience had not heard about than to compare the Egyptian culture to something that the Greeks were familiar with, their own culture.
		Herodotus was a Greek historian bound to the ways of humanity, recording the differences which defined us.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/lithum/gallo/herodotus.html (1675 words)

	Herodotus (Histories): Historical Narrativity
		The recounting by Herodotus of Cyrus' childhood in the Histories reveals not only the sociopolitical bias under which the author was necessarily writing, but also the differences between his historical composition and that of other contemporary forms of narration.
		An obvious technique which Herodotus uses to transform the mythological facts underlying the story of Cyrus' youth into the realistic and logical discourse of the narration is to remove one of the most fantastic elements: the gods.
		In any case, the liberty which Herodotus has to discuss any subject deemed by him to be important lends a greater factuality and historicity to the work, by means of the completeness and extensiveness of the descriptions, and the inclusion of all relevant historical details.
	www.nthuleen.com /papers/L10herodotus.html (1460 words)

	Herodotus
		Herodotus is a wonderful storyteller, and in recalling the wars with Persian invaders, he ranges across the ancient world, mixing politics with natural history and anthropology.
		Herodotus would now naturally return to his native city, and enter upon the enjoyment of those rights of free citizenship on which every Greek set a high value.
		Herodotus was correctly able to identify the Scythians as an Indo-European people (though he did not use that term) who migrated from central Russia in the 8th and 7th centuries BC.
	www.lycos.com /info/herodotus--histories.html (761 words)

	Rocky Road: Herodotus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Born the fifth century BC in what is now Turkey, Herodotus was a widely traveled and well-read historian, and he did relate tales of mythical griffins, flying dragons and gigantic heroes.
		Regarding mythical creatures, Herodotus believed that some legends he heard preserved a kernel of genuine fact, and he played a role in spreading the legend of the griffin.
		Far from a simple father of lies, Herodotus was arguably the world's first anthropologist, recording not only the legends but also the lifestyles and languages of other cultures.
	www.strangescience.net /herodotus.htm (460 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 gives a convincing description of the topography of the country, and as yet there is no evidence to discredit his narrative.
		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.
	www.cam-info.net /enc/herodotus.html (6301 words)

	The Histories, Herodotus - Timeline Index
		The Histories is commonly thought of as the classic chronicle of the great 5th century BCE wars between the underdog confederacy of Greek city-states and the mighty Persian Empire.
		Herodotus, commonly referred to as the "father of history," takes a much broader approach with his work.
		While he does cover the heroic battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis and Plateau, their treatment is surprisingly shallow, with the bulk of the book dedicated to narration of the gathering storm of Persian power and related expository coverage of the many lands, nations and peoples, intrigues, power struggles and heroic achievements of classical times.
	www.timelineindex.com /content/view/1018 (274 words)

	Herodotus
		Herodotus was a Greek historian in the fifth century B.C.E. His birth was around B.C.E. References to certain events in his narratives suggest that he did not die until at least 431 B.C.E, which was the beginning of the Peloponesian War.
		Histories is the story of the rise of Persian power and the friction between Persia and Greece.
		Herodotus also wrote about the appearance of the priests.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/prehistory/egypt/history/people/herodotus.html (447 words)

	On Herodotus' Histories
		It is a history eminently suitable for the purposes of an empire.
		Herodotus’ Persians are the royalty and the aristocrats.
		However, writing for the Athenians to whom his emotional loyalty is axiomatic, Herodotus’ gaze is on the ‘barbarians’ and while he carefully avoids passing judgment on cultural peculiarities that have few obvious moral disadvantages, in his choice and selection of material he could well qualify as the first Orientalist.
	www.shunya.net /Text/Herodotus/TheHistorian.htm (1151 words)

	Herodotus Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history.Here is the historian, investigating and judging what he has seen, heard, and read, and seeking out the true causes and consequences of the great deeds of the past.
		Herodotus the great Greek historian was born about 484 BC, at Halicarnassus in Caria, Asia Minor, when it was subject to the Persians.
		The Greek historians: the essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon [and] Polybius.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Herodotus (581 words)

	Historical Causation in Herodotus
		It is perhaps appropriate that Herodotus, intent as he was on recording the first, the biggest, and the best, and "other great and wondrous deeds," was accorded a superlative of his own, namely the father of history.
		He intimates that the creative process, poiesis, is lacking in Herodotus and in history in general so that "poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars" (Poetics 51a36).
		Herodotus says of Candaules that he was destined to an ill end, and later, that crime of Gyges would be repaid in the fifth generation.
	www.tulane.edu /~august/thescla.htm (720 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Histories: Books: Herodotus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Herodotus created a sense of history for his people, and he gives us a picture of a distant past that reminds us of the vast continuum of civilization.
		It's the earliest attempt at unbiased history, and that attempt was the catalyst for those historians who followe: Thucydides, Xenophon, etc. Even the common usage of the word "histories"--meaning "inquiries"--is due to Herodotus.
		The Histories are constantly referenced in western literature in everything from the Divine Comedy to the English Patient to Lawrence of Arabia to Ball Four.
	www.amazon.ca /Histories-Herodotus/dp/0375400613 (1677 words)

	Herodotus on the pharaohs
		Herodotus was born about 490 BCE at Halicarnassos in Carien and died in the late 420's.
		We will pass over the baseless news of Herodotus and other writers about Egyptian history, who instead of the truth wanted to present us rather with tales of wonder and entertaining inventions; in contrast we will report after attentive scrutiny what the Egyptian priests themselves wrote in their documents.
		Herodotus may have left out the less interesting parts of what he heard, after all he was telling stories and not compiling laundry lists for future historians.
	www.reshafim.org.il /ad/egypt/herodotus/index.html (603 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| The Histories by Herodotus
		And in the generosity of his spirit, in the instinctive empiricism that took him searching over much of the known world for information, in the care he took with sources and historical evidence, in his freedom from intolerance and prejudice, he virtually defined the rational, humane spirit that is the enduring legacy of Greek civilization.
		Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, in Asia Minor, in the fifth century B.C. Called the Father of History, he wrote the first comprehensive attempt at secular narrative history, long considered the starting point of Western historical writing.
		The focus of his Histories is the Persian Wars, but he includes fascinating digressions on the histories of Bablyon, Egypt, and Thrace, as well as studies of the pyramids and various historical events.
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