Sample Sentences for

Herodotus

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I'm glad you are finally showing a glimmer of interest in the craft of Herodotus.†  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

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) John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley, 1962

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) John Gardner, The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972

This one advertised itself with names carved in the granite frieze above its broad front: HOMER, HERODOTUS, SOPHOCLES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, DEMOSTHENES, CICERO, VERGIL.†  (source) Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains, 2009

Dysentery had been the curse of armies since ancient times, as recorded by Herodotus.†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

Yes, she said, it's in Herodotus, or something like that is.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

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) John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1955

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) George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872

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) Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 1831

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) Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure, 1895

The opening chapters of Herodotus' Histories reflect with urbane bemusement on these old legendary wars fought over straying women.†  (source) Homer, The Iliad, -850 B.C.

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) John Steinbeck, East of Eden, 1952

Then I'd remember Herodotus didn't have a smartphone, because he had been dead since the Iron Age.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle, 2016