Herodotus tended to put his political philosophies into the mouths of historical figures such as Miltiades. He condensed his ...

The Pelasgians were the ancestors of the Greeks, remembered by ancient historians as the very foundation of Hellenic identity and culture.

Scylax of Caryanda was a Greek explorer sent by Persian King Darius I to chart the Indus River, shaping early Greek ...

Herodotus plays a key role in his Booker-prize winning novel, The English Patient. Clifford Orwin is a professor of political science, classics and Jewish studies at the University of Toronto.

When Herodotus told me that Greek religion developed from the Egyptian religion, the distance that separated our two cultures lessened. By teaching me about the Egyptians, Herodotus enabled me to know ...

Herodotus' Work: Although the work is titled by us "The Persian War," Herodotus had no title for it. It is Universal History-the whole world as Herodotus knew it, spanning the time-frame from the ...

In the 5th century BCE Herodotus travelled his ancient world gathering stories. One of his many prescient observations was how given the right circumstances a political strongman can emerge and ...

History, like poetry, began with war. Around 440 BC, some three centuries after Homer, singing of the wrath of Achilles, composedThe Iliad , a Greek by the name of Herodotus embarked upon a ...