NOUN
- the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC)
How To Use Herodotus In A Sentence
- The only evidence even remotely suggesting that Persians mummified their dead is from the fifth century B.C. Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote that Persians "embalmed" their dead in wax. Archive 2008-01-01
- Herodotus was born a Persian subject sometime between 490 and 484 B.C. in Halicarnassus, in southwestern Asia Minor. A Historian For Our Time
- As a species, we delight in making lists, which is what drove Herodotus in the fifth century B.C. and Callimachus of Cyrene a century later to enumerate the seven wonders in the first place. A Wonder From Any Angle
- Herodotus in particular seems to have caught both Ethiopia's sybaritic allure and the exalted drum-driven dawn chants of the churches perfectly.
- Herodotus had himself visited Thasos, and tells us that the mines were on the eastern coast of the island, between two places which he calls respectively History of Phoenicia
- I opened it; and as if it, too, were a link in the chain of influences which I half felt was being forged around me, it opened at the first part of "Euterpe," where Herodotus is speculating upon the phenomena of the Nile. Found and Lost
- The Landmark Herodotus is not just a book; it’s a journey, a voyage into the history of ancient Greece and its war with the Persian Empire, as told by someone who, while not there at the time, lived in a period much closer to it than you or I. Questions will be answered, thoughts made, and wonders discovered. “The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories” by Herodotus, Robert B. Strassler, Andrea L. Purvis (Pantheon, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
- Cannabis is called kaneh bosem in Hebrew, which is now recognized as the Scythian word that Herodotus wrote as kannabis (or cannabis). Cannabis Culture Magazine
- But this helps Herodotus to refel the crime with which he is charged, of having flattered the Athenians for a great sum of money he received of them. Essays and Miscellanies
- A page of Herodotus would have been sufficient to put a battalion of biblical scholars out of action.
