Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek historian whose writings on the Persian Wars are among the earliest known works of narrative history.
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- proper noun An ancient
historian who lived from 484 to 425 BC.
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- noun the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Translated by Andrea L. Purvis, with a introduction by Rosalind Thomas, The Landmark Herodotus is a hefty tome that will delight any historian or fan of Herodotus and the classical Greek period.
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Herodotus is like, Truth is fluid, let's not get too fussy about the details.
Alcibiades: canonically irresistable. karenhealey 2010
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But Herodotus is now urgently useful for reasons that rise above mere entertainment and exotica.
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But Herodotus is now urgently useful for reasons that rise above mere entertainment and exotica.
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The earliest known written description of an artificial limb appears in Herodotus's The Histories, written in 484 B.C.
Prosthetics ewillett 2007
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But Herodotus is now urgently useful for reasons that rise above mere entertainment and exotica.
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“Dárfíl” = the Gr. {Greek} later {Greek}, suggesting that the writer had read of Arion in Herodotus i.
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And he called Herodotus a thief and a beguiler, and “the same with intent to deceive,” as one of their own poets writes.
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This custom seems to have worked very well and Herodotus is full of enthusiasm for it.
As I Please 1944
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The Landmark Herodotus is not just a book; it’s a journey, a voyage into the history of ancient Greece and its war with the Persian Empire, as told by someone who, while not there at the time, lived in a period much closer to it than you or I. Questions will be answered, thoughts made, and wonders discovered.
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