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...The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century B...

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...The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century B...

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...The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histories tell the story of the war between the Persian Empire and the Greek city-states in the 5th century B...

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...every nation which has pretended to that science has practiced the same method. Herodotus mentions it as a custom of the Alani, and Tacitus of the o...

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... who were also physicians of the Empirical School, [1] and often speaks of Herodotus, supposed to be identical with the teacher of Sextus given by ... ...ion is made more complicated, as it is difficult to fix the identity of the Herodotus so often referred to by Galen. [3] As Galen died about 200 A.... ...w, point to Rome as the place of his residence. Further, Haas considers the Herodotus mentioned by Galen [4] as a prominent physician in Rome, to ... ... on the Lebensverhältnisse des Sextus Empiricus Berlin 1875, he says, "Dass Herodotus in Rom lebte sagt Galen. Vermuthlich auch Sextus." His reasons ... ...removal from Alexandria before the time of Menodotus, who is the teacher of Herodotus, [1] and for many reasons to be considered the real teacher o... ... then accept the teacher of Sextus, in whose place he says he taught, as the Herodotus so often referred to by Galen [1] who lived in Rome. Sextus' ...

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...lt is a deep imbalance in the American system, more democracy but less liberty.'' Herodotus (Histories, Book III) would have concurred: ''In a dem...

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... forgotten the rest;" "There came a time-let us say, for convenience, with Herodotus and Thucydides-when this attention to actions was conscious an...

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...f I don’t talk to me, then I’d just float away, wouldn’t I? According to Herodotus cats in Egypt jump into fire; but why would they? Material goes ...

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...ide the execution of his disloyaltie untill after his death. No more than Herodotus his Mason who during his natural life, having faithfully kept th... ...everus. In the battles that past betweene the Ægyptians and the Persians, Herodotus saith, that both himselfe and divers others tooke speciall notice... ...e aleageth that some have lived a long time without any sleep at all. And Herodotus reporteth there are nations where men sleep and make by halfe ye... ...akes and serpents, on which his horses fed very hungerly, which thing, as Herodotus saith, was an ill-boding prodigy unto his affaires. We call him a... ... easily bastardize their naturall affection. I believe that in that which Herodotus reporteth of a certaine province of Libia, their often followeth ... ...nor of Bacchus nor of Ceres. If any credit may be given unto Plinie or to Herodotus, there is in some places a kinde of men that have very little or... ...ceive in them, changing the east into the west. The Ægyptian priests told Herodotus that since their first king, which was eleaven thousand and odde... ...(saith Plinie) cure all maladies with cowes milke. And the Lybians (saith Herodotus) doe generally enjoy a perfect health by observing this custome, ...

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...eas of the Constitution in the Federalist papers. The ‗father of history‘ Herodotus was not an eye witness to the Peloponnesian Wars. Did he see ever...

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...ated her withdrawal -- were far from an oasis. She would recall the words of Herodotus that "No man steps into the same water twice" and this would ag...

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...ism. Simple stupid bigotry. Cultural prejudice. Cultural hate. Copied from Herodotus and preserved by other historians for 2,500 fucking years. ...

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... 98, is an ethnographic work on the Germanic tribes outside the Roman Empire. Germania fits squarely within the tradition established by authors from Herodotus to Julius Caesar. Tacitus himself had already written a similar essay on the lands and tribes of Britannia in his Agricola. The Germania begins with a description of the lands, laws, and customs of the Germanic peop...

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... in 162/163 AD, 795/796 AD, 842/843 AD and 860/861 AD. Solar eclipses have been interpreted as bad omens or forewarnings. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that Thales of Miletus predicted an eclipse that occurred during a war between the Medians and the Lydians. Both sides put down their weapons and declared peace as a result of the eclipse. The Trojan War and t...

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...Stoics expressly and particularly forbidden to their sages. But the story—[Herodotus, iii. 14.]—says that Psammenitus, King of Egypt, being defeated a... ...et him have been as wicked as the devil) was the best that ever they had;—[Herodotus, vi. 68.]—by this means attributing to his quality the praise tha... ...ing the execution of his infidelity till after his death than the mason in Herodotus, who having inviolably, dur- ing the time of his life, kept the s... ... of their fathers, they conceived a still greater horror at the mo- tion.—[Herodotus, iii. 38.]—Every one does the same, for use veils from us the tru... ... of them- selves, for he was sufficient to look to what belonged to him. —[Herodotus, viii. 36.].— The Christian religion has all the marks of the utm... ... firs and bavins, and drawn by oxen, on which they were burned to death.— [Herodotus, iv. 69.]—Such as only meddle with things sub- ject to the conduc... ...oever the weather might be; which also is reported of the Emperor Severus. Herodotus tells us, that in the battles fought betwixt the Egyptians and th... ...ept from sleep; but Pliny instances such as have lived long without sleep. Herodotus speaks of na- tions where the men sleep and wake by half-years, a... ...mber of serpents, which the horses devoured with great appetite, and which Herodotus says was a prodigy of ominous portent to his affairs. We call a h...

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...New T estament. I wished much that she should have gone on to the study of Herodotus. And I described to her the situation of the vivacious and mercur... ...r desire to learn it.* The very truth, and mere facts of history, reaching Herodotus through such *“About me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, ... ...these were precisely what the Grecian did not know, and first learned from Herodotus. 60 Memorials, and Other Papers a haze of remote abstraction, an... ...f marvellousness, which seems connected with the choice and preferences of Herodotus, is in reality the natural gift of his position. Culling from a f... ...the wild and the marvellous. Meantime, this purpose of ours with regard to Herodotus was defeated. Whilst we were making prepara- tions for it, sudden... ...available for Homer; neither, it is true, would he have been available for Herodotus. But, considering the simplicity and unifor- mity of style in bot... ...e hundred years earlier, in the 444th year B.C., or the locus of Pericles, Herodotus (then forty years old) is universally supposed to have read, whic... ...es in the fact that they led to no imitations. Even in a case mentioned by Herodotus, when a man had the audacity to found a colony without seeking an... ...s one which occurred in Egypt on a scale of some extent; and is noticed by Herodotus. This degradation argued great poverty in the particular temples:...

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...orse; Euclid was chief engineer; Plato and Aristotle commanded the bowmen; Herodotus and Livy the foot; Hippocrates, the The Battle of the Books and O...

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...ict such compression upon their tender feet. Even as early as the times of Herodotus, we find, from his account of a Lybian nation, that the women and... ...m extreme inaccuracy in the original reports, which was so great that even Herodotus, who stood removed from Plataea at the time of commencing his lab...

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...sable act, than to believe in that of Romulus. To deny a fact re- lated in Herodotus, because it is inconsistent with a theory developed from an Assyr... ...be taken of the treatise on the Life of Homer which has been attributed to Herodotus. According to this document, the city of Cumæ in Æolia, was, at a... ...improve the 27 Pope poetry of a passage, although a mass of remarks, from Herodotus down to Loewe, have given us the history of a thousand minute poi... ...nes of the gods. If Homer was not the first who introduced the deities (as Herodotus imagines) into the religion of Greece, he seems the first who bro... ...s place of birth, profession, or the like: as Alexander the son of Philip, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Diogenes the Cynic, &c. Homer, therefore, compl...

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...sable act, than to believe in that of Romulus. To deny a fact re lated in Herodotus, because it is inconsistent with a theory 5 Pope developed from ... ...be taken of the treatise on the Life of Homer which has been attributed to Herodotus. According to this document, the city of Cumae in Æolia was, at a... ...antially improve the poetry of a passage, although a mass of remarks, from Herodotus down to Loewe, have given us the history of a thousand minute poi...