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Herodotus
Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, among other subjects such as the rise of the Achaemenid dynasty of Cyrus. He has been described as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero.
Histories
work by Herodotus
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Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, One of his Ministers, as She Goes to Bed
painting by William Etty
Gelonus
Gelonus () was, according to Herodotus, the capital of the Gelonians.
Judgement of Cambyses
painting by Gerard David
gold-digging ant
mythical insect
Tellus of Athens
proverbially blessed ancient Athenian
Otanes
Persian judge, son of Sisamnes
Lost Army of Cambyses
524 BC disappearance of a Persian army
The Babylonian Marriage Market
painting by Edwin Long
Otanes
Otanes (Old Persian: Utāna, ) is a name given to several figures that appear in the Histories of Herodotus. One or more of these figures may be the same person.
districts of the Achaemenid Empire
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