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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 BCE, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
The Median dynasty was, according to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus, a dynasty composed of four kings who ruled for 150 years under the Median Empire. [1] If Herodotus' story is accurate, the Medes were unified by a man named Deioces, the first of the four kings who would rule the Median Empire; a mighty empire that included large parts of Iran and eastern Anatolia.
c. 450 BCE: Herodotus, The Histories [59], First historical reference clearly denoting a wider region than biblical Philistia, referring to a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê" [60] [15] [61] (Book 3 [62]): "The country reaching from the city of Posideium to the borders of Egypt... paid a tribute of three hundred and fifty talents.
Roman copy (2nd century AD) of a Greek bust of Herodotus from the first half of the 4th century BC.. 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 fails to explicitly date the battle, recording the event as part of the whole Spartan expedition against Argos. [4] The only mentioning of a date occurs in his book Pausnias III, where Herodotus suggests the battle occurred at the beginning of the reign of Cleomenes I i.e. 520 BC. [8] Bust of Herodotus in Palazzo Massimo (Rome)
In the Histories, the Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus made many references to the Pelasgians. In Book 1, the Pelasgians are mentioned within the context of Croesus seeking to learn who the strongest Greeks were to befriend them. [ 47 ]
The map of Achaemenid Empire and the section of the Royal Road noted by Herodotus. The Royal Road was an ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt for trade by Darius the Great, the Achaemenid emperor, in the 5th century BC. [1] Darius I built the road to facilitate rapid communication on the western part of his large empire from Susa to Sardis. [2]