Herodotus's

So far in the Antiquities, Josephus has been using mostly biblical texts as his sources, but has drawn a few embellishments from other places, particularly Herodotus's History.

2008 Lenten Read-a-Thon Day 16 2008

So far in the Antiquities, Josephus has been using mostly biblical texts as his sources, but has drawn a few embellishments from other places, particularly Herodotus's History.

Archive 2008-02-01 2008

The earliest known written description of an artificial limb appears in Herodotus's The Histories, written in 484 B.C.

Prosthetics ewillett 2007

Though its veracity has been debated since Classical times, Herodotus's Histories is considered the first work of history in Western Literature.

Lapham's Quarterly: Ancient Histories 2008

The New York Sun, in its review, described your book as "a Global Positioning System for Herodotus's world."

Robert Strassler on Herodotus 2007

The 1,024-page book, which has been published by Bertelsmann AG's Pantheon imprint, is illustrated with photographs, flanking footnotes and 127 maps, all intended to help readers understand where they are in Herodotus's ambitious chronicling of the Persian Wars.

Robert Strassler on Herodotus 2007

Truth no longer becomes merely a casualty of war but another English Patient, doomed, moribund, wrapped in bandages, clinging to a volume of ancient history, Herodotus's "Persian Wars", that can no longer provide him solace.

Spinning Truth into Lies 2006

And that Law commanded that they never accept slavery and even if all the other Greeks fled, the Spartans would take the field against the Persians rather than relinquish either their freedom or the Law, thus niftily summing up the central theme of Herodotus's entire work.

The Spartans Would Think We're Crazy 2006

Sennacherib (705–682) made the Medes tributary in 701, but a revolt broke out in 674 under Khshathrita (possibly Herodotus's Phraortes), who ruled an independent Media for some time.

d. The Medes and the Persians 2001

I devoutly wish that Herodotus's other characteristics were imitable; not all of them, of course -- that is past praying for --, but any one of them: the agreeable style, the constructive skill, the native charm of his

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894