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Herodotus preceded Thucydides.Herodotus = the ancient Greek known as the father of history (485-425 BC)
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Yes, she said, it's in Herodotus, or something like that is.† (source)
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Or I'd wonder why Herodotus the historian wasn't in my contacts list.† (source)
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The best known Greek historians were Herodotus (484-424 B.C.) and Thucydides (460-400 B.C.).† (source)
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Dysentery had been the curse of armies since ancient times, as recorded by Herodotus.† (source)
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This one advertised itself with names carved in the granite frieze above its broad front: HOMER, HERODOTUS, SOPHOCLES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, DEMOSTHENES, CICERO, VERGIL.† (source)
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But beyond this, Fargo to me is brother to the fabulous places of the earth, kin to those magically remote spots mentioned by Herodotus and Marco Polo and Mandeville.† (source)Herodotus = the ancient Greek known as the father of history (485-425 BC)
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I'm glad you are finally showing a glimmer of interest in the craft of Herodotus.† (source)
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As an obituary notice later described it: With a readiness which was often surprising he could quote from a Roman law or a Greek philosopher, from Virgil's Georgics, the Arabian Nights, Herodotus or Sancho Panza, from the Sacred Carpets, the German Reformers or Adam Smith; from Fenelon or Hudibras, from the Financial Reports of Necca, or the doings of the Council of Trent; from the debates of the adoption of the Constitution, or the intrigues of the kitchen cabinet, or from some forgotten speech of a deceased member of Congress.† (source)
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It's true, Herodotus tells the story that the priestess of Bel passed a night at the top of the temple tower to wait for the deity to alight—but there's no reference to any such business in the cuneiform texts.† (source)
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Meanwhile I will read, as soon as I am settled in Christminster, the books I have not been able to get hold of here: Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes—† (source)
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There was a little heap of them on the table in the bow-window—of various sorts, from Herodotus, which she was learning to read with Mr. Casaubon, to her old companion Pascal, and Keble's "Christian Year."† (source)
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I will not tell you, poor old man, to go and visit the sepulchral chambers of the pyramids, of which ancient Herodotus speaks, nor the brick tower of Babylon, nor the immense white marble sanctuary of the Indian temple of Eklinga.† (source)
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[1] Herodotus (i. 214) tells how Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae, having defeated and slain Cyrus, filled a skin full of human blood, and plunged his head in it with words such as Dante reports, and which he derived from Orosius, Histor† (source)
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The opening chapters of Herodotus' Histories reflect with urbane bemusement on these old legendary wars fought over straying women.† (source)
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Herodotus, in the Persian War, tells a story of how Croesus, the richest and most-favored king of his time, asked Solon the Athenian a leading question.† (source)
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