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Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers, and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda: that of Photius [15] and Tzetzes, [16] in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father, and burst into tears during the recital. Herodotus observed ...
Like many ancient historians, Herodotus preferred an element of show [d] to purely analytic history, aiming to give pleasure with "exciting events, great dramas, bizarre exotica." [ 43 ] As such, certain passages have been the subject of controversy [ 44 ] [ 45 ] and even some doubt, both in antiquity and today.
Herodotus is widely known as the "father of history," his Histories being eponymous of the entire field. Written between the 450s and 420s BC, the scope of Herodotus' work reaches about a century in the past, discussing 6th century BC historical figures such as Darius I of Persia , Cambyses II , and Psamtik III and alludes to some 8th century ...
A second century AD Roman copy of a Greek bust of Herodotus from the first half of the fourth century BC. Two notable historians who lived during the Classical Era were Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Thucydides. Herodotus is commonly called "The Father of History." [50] His book The Histories is among the oldest works of prose literature in ...
Herodotus estimates that Cadmus lived sixteen hundred years earlier, or around 2000 BC. [7] He had seen and described the Cadmean writing engraved on certain tripods in the temple of Apollo at Thebes. He estimated that those tripods dated back to the time of Laius, the great-grandson of Cadmus. [8]
According to the report by Herodotus (Histories A.65, 2–4), Lycurgus visited and consulted the oracle before he applied his new laws to Sparta, "You have come to my rich temple, Lycurgus,/ A man dear to Zeus and to all who have Olympian homes./ I am in doubt whether to pronounce you man or god,/ But I think rather you are a god, Lycurgus."
Herodotus, writing in the 5th century BCE, traced many Greek religious practices to Egypt. Robert G. Boling argues that Greek and Ugaritic / Canaanite mythology share many parallel relationships and that historical trends in Canaanite religion can help date works such as Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey .
[10]: 60 [11]: 22 Herodotus attempted to reconcile origins and the blending of differing cultural concepts. The poetry of the Hellenistic and Roman ages was primarily composed as a literary rather than cultic exercise. Nevertheless, it contains many important details that would otherwise be lost. This category includes the works of: