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    The Histories (Greek: Ἱστορίαι, Historíai; also known as The History) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Although...
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    Herodotus (Latin: Hērodotus, Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city...
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    Griffin (category Pages using the WikiHiero extension)
    Herodotus (1909). The History of Herodotus. Vol2. Translated by Rawlinson, George. New York: Tandy-Thomas. III.16, IV.13 (pp. 146, 192). Herodotus III...
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    Baiamout (Al-Harem-Baiamout). Herodotus, Histories, 2.149. (Translation from The History of Herodotus. Vol2. Translated by Rawlinson, George. London: John...
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    Scyles (category People from the Bosporan Kingdom)
    Scythian king who lived in the 5th century BC. He is mentioned in the histories of Herodotus as having been an admirer of Greek culture and traditions...
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    the academic study of history is a major discipline in universities. Herodotus, a 5th-century BC Greek historian, is often considered the "father of history"...
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    Xerxes I (redirect from Xerxes the Great)
    Images of women in Greek historiography on Persia". In Vignolo Munson, Rosaria (ed.). Herodotus. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Vol2: Herodotus and...
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  • Octamasadas (category History stubs)
    ISBN 9781614308294. The History of Herodotus, vol. 1 at Project Gutenberg (translation by George Campbell Macaulay, 1852–1915) The History of Herodotus, vol. 2 at Project...
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    Eion (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the DGRG without Wikisource reference)
    102. Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War. Vol. 4.107. Peter Edmund Laurent, The Nine Books of the History of Herodotus, Vol. 2 (Henry Slatter,...
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    the Battle of Thermopylae itself, two principal sources, Herodotus' and Simonides' accounts, survive. Herodotus' account in Book VII of his Histories...
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    2007, ISBN 0-313-33536-2, p. 428 (Auszug, p. 428, at Google Books) Herodotus: Histories 1,74,2 (online) The Histories. Herodotus. "Happy Birthday to Science"...
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    Scythopolis; and the Church historian Zacharias Rhetor (Kazhdan 1991, p. 1563, Palestine). Jerome and Eusebius, rather than Herodotus' actual history of Palestine...
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  • 7th century BC. Herodotus dated the introduction of coins to Italy to the Etruscans of Populonia in about 550 BC. Other coins made of electrum (a naturally...
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    between, they are briefs of murder cases and once to mean suicide, as did Dio Cassius. Thucydides, Herodotus, and Aeschylus also use the word to denote one...
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  • although Herodotus spelled it as Ἐπιάλτης, Epialtes) was the son of Eurydemus (Greek: Εὐρύδημος) of Malis. He betrayed his homeland, in hope of receiving...
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    (February 2001). "Herodotus' Description of the East Mediterranean Coast". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. The University of Chicago Press...
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  • question. In Europe, the academic discipline of historiography was established in the 5th century BCE with the Histories, by Herodotus, who thus established...
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    Pelasgians (redirect from The pelasgians)
    Herodotus. Histories, 2.51. Herodotus. Histories, 2.56. Herodotus. Histories, 5.26. Herodotus. Histories, 6.137–6.140. Buck 1979, p. 79. Herodotus. Histories...
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    languages. By far the most important source is the fifth-century Greek historian Herodotus. Herodotus, who has been called the "Father of History", was born...
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    confirmed by Diodorus Siculus. Herodotus mentioned pitch spring on Zacynthus (Ionian islands, Greece). Also, Herodotus described a well for bitumen (very...
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