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.
-
Herodotus tells us ( "Euterpe," cxlii.) that, according to the information he received from the Egyptian priests, their written history dated back 11,340 years before his era, or nearly 14,000 years prior to this time.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world
-
Historians Hippocrates and Herodotus thought that the Amazons had to fight until they had scalped three enemies before they were permitted to mate.
-
To be plaine, I am voyde of al judgement, if your nine Com{oe}dies, whereunto, in imitation of Herodotus, you give the names of the Nine Muses, and (in one man's fansie not unworthily), come not neerer Ariostoes Com{oe}dies, eyther for the finenesse of plausible elocution, or the rareness of poetical invention, than that Elvish queene doth to his Orlando Furioso, which notwithstanding, you will needes seem to emulate, and hope to overgo, as you flatly professed yourself in one of your last letters.
A Biography of Edmund Spenser
-
But Herodotus is now urgently useful for reasons that rise above mere entertainment and exotica.
A Historian For Our Time
-
The sexes when worshipping it exchanged habits and here the virginity was offered in sacrifice: Herodotus (i.c. 199) describes this defloration at Babylon but sees only the shameful part of the custom which was a mere consecration of a tribal rite.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
-
HERODOTUS, the Father of History, tells us that once upon a time -- which time, as the modern computator shows us, was about the year 590 B.C. -- a war had risen between the Lydians and the Medes and continued five years.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
-
Greek historian Herodotus, who wrote that Persians "embalmed" their dead in wax.
Multimedia: Botching a Good Story
-
“Dárfíl” = the Gr. {Greek} later {Greek}, suggesting that the writer had read of Arion in Herodotus i.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
-
Worse, their concern for readers accustomed to short Dick-and-Jane sentences and political cliché has often led them to chop up Herodotus 'long, marvelously organized paratactic clauses, scramble his sentences, omit his oral-style repetitions altogether, pepper his text with unmarked explanatory glosses, and turn his concrete phraseology into a series of bland bureaucratic abstractions.
The Great Marathon Man
-
And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes.
Letters to Dead Authors
-
Herodotus relates that they even circumnavigated Africa.
Alexander the Great
-
Herodotus: Greek historian of the fifth century B.C. from Halicarnassus who wrote a colorful history of much of the known world.
Alexander the Great
-
Hellespont as along a royal road; and how his army drank a whole river dry -- all of which is gravely related by Herodotus as fact, is discredited by the Latin poet JUVENAL, who attributes these stories to the imaginations of "browsy poets.
Mosaics of Grecian History
-
Kipling's fuzzy-wuzzies"; "the couturier Madeleine Vionnet" put in an unexpected appearance in the same paragraph as Herodotus, Baudelaire and St Francis of Assisi.
Top stories from Times Online
-
Like Herodotus's exciting account of Leonidas and his 300 spunky Spartans holding up the entire Persian army at Thermopylae, this is story-telling so florid and fantastical that Tolkien himself might have written it.
-
Herodotus also claimed that some Indians ate the bodies of their dead fathers as a sign of respect and were disgusted when they heard that Greeks cremated their dead.
Alexander the Great
-
This custom seems to have worked very well and Herodotus is full of enthusiasm for it.
As I Please
-
Even the limestone in the Egyptian pyramids contains foram remains, the ancient historian Herodotus noted.
-
The earliest known written description of an artificial limb appears in Herodotus's The Histories, written in 484 B.C.
Prosthetics
-
This reversal is the subject of Herodotus' detailed account in the long excursus he consecrates in Book 3 to the theme of the hostility between Corinth and her colony Corcyra.
-
Along with a colossal statue of Athena, bases for busts inscribed with the names of Homer, Herodotus and other noted literary figures were found here.
-
Herodotus is like, Truth is fluid, let's not get too fussy about the details.
Alcibiades: canonically irresistable.
-
Herodotus rejoins that camels have four thighbones in their hind legs, and that their genitals face backwards.
-
That sounded like bull to Herodotus.
-
When Herodotus narrates what he was told by the barbarians among whom he travelled, he narrates fooleries, after the manner of the greater part of travellers.
A Philosophical Dictionary
-
Lindley records the conjecture that the article referred to by Herodotus was the _nabk_, the berry of the lote-bush (_Zizyphus lotus_), which the Arabs of Barbary still eat.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
-
Here occur the questions, Where and When was written and to Whom do we owe a prose-poem which, like the dramatic epos of Herodotus, has no equal?
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
-
Translated by Andrea L. Purvis, with a introduction by Rosalind Thomas, The Landmark Herodotus is a hefty tome that will delight any historian or fan of Herodotus and the classical Greek period.
“The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories” by Herodotus, Robert B. Strassler, Andrea L. Purvis (Pantheon, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
-
Some Editors, in order to bring the statement of Herodotus into agreement with the fact, read {leukon ti trigonon}, “a kind of white triangle”: so Stein.
The History of Herodotus
-
Herodotus rejoins that camels have four thighbones in their hind legs, and that their genitals face backwards.
-
Pliny (viii. 3) quotes Herodotus about the buying of ivories and relates how elephants, when hunted, break their “cornua” (as Juba called them) against a tree trunk by way of ransom.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
-
In so far as it justified the oracle, the story of Herodotus was first broadcast from Delphi.
-
Compare the account here given by Herodotus with Pauia - nias, 1.x. c. i, and the Stratagemata of Polyaenus, L vi c. i8«* -
The history of Herodotus
-
Tacitus admired the Germanic tribes, Herodotus the barbarian Scythians, Ibn Khaldun the nomadic Beduin, and the Chinese the Mongols. [more ...]
Archive 2010-02-01
-
If he is right to challenge Herodotus on the colloquial "the wind grew fagged" or the inadequate "unpleasant end," the same bathos can be achieved by straying too far in the opposite direction, to "the wind grew enervated" or "calamitous termination," say.
On the Sublime
-
Thus the term received still another extension and this be - came its fourth sense, and was so used by Herodotus,
DESPOTISM
-
Then the priest, at my desire, brought me to one of the temples, that I might seek out all things concerning Herodotus the Halicarnassian, from one who knew.
Letters to Dead Authors
-
The elaborate burial of the Scythian kings is described by Herodotus and is almost entirely confirmed by archaeology.
-
Once a year, according to Herodotus, it was the Babylonian custom to assemble all the village girls of marriageable age and hold an auction.
-
Pliny (viii. 3) quotes Herodotus about the buying of ivories and relates how elephants, when hunted, break their "cornua" (as Juba called them) against a tree trunk by way of ransom.
Arabian nights. English
-
The Greek historian Herodotus told of its use in the form of pitch for building and road making in the ancient city of Babylon in present-day Iraq.
-
Passages about the Greek historian Herodotus interweave with Michael's story, as do other classical references, family photographs and letters.
Five finalists for National Book Critics Circle award in poetry
-
The Greek historian Herodotus told of its use in the form of pitch for building and road making in the ancient city of Babylon in present-day Iraq.
-
Herodotus describes as abounding in the Nile in his time, but which is now extinct; with a flower resembling a rose, and a fruit in shape like
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
-
Herodotus is telling of wonders that his friends, and we too, want to hear, that in the tragedies we hear the voice of Sophocles dictating, choked with emotion and tears; that even Roman historians wrote because they had something to tell, and Caesar, dull proser that he is, composed the _Commentaries_ not to provide us with style or grammatical curiosities, but as a record of extraordinary events.
Cambridge Essays on Education
-
And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes.
Letters to Dead Authors
