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...ographical approach to the problem of how the Greek historians, especially Herodotus, wrote the history of the Persian war." [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21 ...storiographer. So the authors of this article are called historiographers. Herodotus is called a historian. The index to the New York Times is called a chronicl

Like more historical accounts by [[Herodotus]], [[Plato]], and [[Xenophon]], the playwright shows Socrates as a moral in

...was removing the interwiki links, I also removed the non-top category on ''Herodotus'' because that seemed to be the practice that I have seen elsewhere, namely

Near 450 BC, [[Greece|Greek]] [[history|historian]] [[Herodotus]] visited Egypt. There, he was told by Egyptian priests that more than 400,

# [[Herodotus]]

...Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[history|historians]] such as [[Thucydides]] and [[Herodotus]] often thought of [[Persia]] as the ''east'' and Greece as the ''west''. B

First settled approximately 5,000 years ago, [[Herodotus]] called it the "breadbasket of Asia", and it was an established city when

...Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century'' (2008), 544 pp; covers Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius, through Gibbon, Macaulay, Michelet, Prescott and

...s]]. [[Ionic]] is a dialect that was most famously used by the historian [[Herodotus]]. A limited amount of writing has come down to us in the other Ancient Gre

...8 BC) aspired to combine the logical rigor of Thucydides with the scope of Herodotus.<ref> Frank W. Walbank, ''A Historical Commentary on Polybius,'' (3 vols. 1

...flourished throughout Greek civilisation. They included historians like [[Herodotus]] and [[Thucydides]]; dramatists such as [[Aristophanes]], [[Aeschylus]], [

...The restriction to the meaning "record of past events", in the sense of [[Herodotus]], arose in the late 15th century. In German, French, and indeed, most Roma

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...d, and descriptions of areas such as [[India]] are almost wholly fanciful. Herodotus also made important observations about geography. He is the first to have n ...the Nile river, but some geographers, such as Herodotus objected to this. Herodotus argued that there was no difference between the people on the east and west

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The historian [[Herodotus]] (484 BC–ca. 425 BC), and the scholar [[Callimachus]] of [[Cyrene]] (ca

...t popular forms of entertainment have always existed. In his ''Historia'', Herodotus (circa 485-425 BCE) wrote about amusing performances and songs that he enco

In the field of astronomy, Thales is credited by [[Herodotus]] with having predicted the year in which a [[solar eclipse]], later identi

...8 BC) aspired to combine the logical rigor of Thucydides with the scope of Herodotus.<ref> Frank W. Walbank, ''A Historical Commentary on Polybius,'' (3 vols. 1 ...Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century'' (2008), 544 pp; covers Herodotus, Thucydides and Polybius, through Gibbon, Macaulay, Michelet, Prescott and

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