Herodotus is known as the "father of history." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian ...

According to Herodotus, the Scythians not only drank the blood of the first man they killed and collected the scalps of their enemies: “Many too take off the skin, nails and all, from their dead ...

Herodotus, ever the observer of human folly, preserves the moment—a fleeting encounter where two civilizations met, exchanged gifts, and walked away more certain than ever of their own ...

Herodotus described a great war between the Scythians and the Persians, under Darius I of the Achaemenid dynasty. It began in 513 B.C. when Darius invaded Scythian lands, ...

Herodotus: The History of Herodotus, Book I (The Babylonians) (c. 440 BC, trans. G.C. Macaulay, c. 1890; electronic copy from Project Gutenberg) _ The Babylonian Marriage Market: 1875 Edwin Long (1829 ...

Herodotus wrote: "One of the mercenaries of Amasis, a Halicarnassian, Phanes by name, a man of good judgment, and a brave warrior, dissatisfied for some reason or other with his master, deserted ...

Who was Gordias, the legendary father of rich King Midas? Legend connects him to the Gordian knot, famously cut by Alexander ...

Herodotus (ca. 484-425 b.c.) was a Carian, born in Halicarnassus in Asia Minor, in what would now be western Turkey. He was, in other words, from the periphery of the Greek world, and his book is ...

Herodotus: the Histories Translated by Tom Holland Penguin Classics, 834pp, £25. In Tom Holland’s new translation of The Histories, Herodotus, the “father of history” (in Cicero’s phrase), born circa ...