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The Histories was at some point divided into the nine books that appear in modern editions, conventionally named after the nine Muses. The oldest extant copy of Histories by Herodotus are manuscripts from the Byzantine period dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries CE, the (Codex Laurentianus (Codex A)) [3]
Herodotus [a] (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
This article presents a list of people whom Herodotus (c.484–c.425 BC) mentioned in Book One of his major work The Histories. Herodotus presented his theme as "recording the achievements of both our own (Greek) and other peoples; and more particularly, to show how they came into conflict". [ 1 ]
Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 18 (P. Oxy. 18) is a fragment of the first book of the Histories of Herodotus (chapters 105-106), written in Greek. It was discovered by Grenfell and Hunt in 1897 in Oxyrhynchus. The fragment is dated to the third century AD. [1] It is housed in the British Library (Department of Manuscripts). The text was published by ...
Histories (Herodotus) B. The Babylonian Marriage Market; C. Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed; E.
Most of the life of Cleomenes is known through the Histories of Herodotus, an Athenian historian of the second half of the 5th century. [2] He is one the most important characters of books 5 and 6, covering the decades before the Persian Wars. [3]
The earliest known fully narrative critical historical works were The Histories, composed by Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484–425 BC) who became known as the "father of history". [9] Herodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts, and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts ...
The earliest known critical historical works were The Histories, composed by Herodotus of Halicarnassus (484 – c. 425 BCE) who later became known as the "father of history" . Herodotus attempted to distinguish between more and less reliable accounts and personally conducted research by travelling extensively, giving written accounts of ...