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...cultural themes in antiquity, centred round [[individual]]s as varied as [[Herodotus]], [[Socrates]], [[Plato]], [[Alexander the Great]], and [[Augustus]].

...org/wiki/Dionysus Dionysus] (Herodotus 2.81), the Cabeiri, Demeter Achaia (Herodotus 2.51, 5.61), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus Orpheus], Eumolpus, or

...the name of the runner between Athens and Sparta is given as Philippides. Herodotus makes no mention of a messenger sent from Marathon to Athens, and relates t

...[[fertile]] place in the Libyan [[desert]] < ancient [[Greek]] ''Ὄασις'' (Herodotus; compare Hellenistic Greek ''Αὔσις'' (Strabo)) < ancient Egyptian ''w

...described by the Greek researcher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus Herodotus] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halicarnassus Halicarnassus], who lived

...over 1,400 years before rebirth. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus Herodotus], Lucan, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder Pliny the Elder], P

...steam baths. His (c. 440 BCE) ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histories_(Herodotus) Histories]'' records,

...sed to officer," (Polybius 1.69), "relatively unskilled, not [[clever]]," (Herodotus 2,81 and 7 199).[7] The [[military]] connotation in Bauer's definition stem

.... The restriction to the meaning "record of past events" in the sense of [[Herodotus]] arises in the late [[15th century]]. In German, French, and indeed, most ...in his work the [[History of the Peloponnesian War]]. Thucydides, unlike Herodotus and other religious historians, regarded history as being the product of th

...as normally punished by the gods. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus Herodotus] made it clear in a passage,

...ient cultures that arose during the beginning of recorded human history. [[Herodotus]] describes the annual festival of lights associated with this deity in lat

...hat appeared in the histories of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus Herodotus]. At about the same time, the term [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophistes

...of [[intelligence]]. According to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus Herodotus], during the first step of mummification: "The most [[perfect]] [[practice]

...us of Miletus]] ([[ca.]] 550 [[Common Era|BCE]] &ndash; ca. 476 BCE) and [[Herodotus]] (ca. 484 BCE &ndash; 425 BCE). Later, during the [[Middle Ages]], [[Islam

*[[Herodotus]], ''The Histories''

...its better moments has that quality. Major "literary" historians include [[Herodotus]], [[Thucydides]] and [[Procopius]], all of whom count as canonical literar

...[[Strait of Sicily]], but there is little evidence for this. According to Herodotus (c. 430 BC) a Phoenician expedition had circumnavigated [[Africa]] at the b