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Herodotus

-484–-425

Herodotus was a Greek historian whose Histories narrate the Persian Wars and the wider world of the eastern Mediterranean.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus wrote the Histories, a large prose work explaining the causes and course of the Greco-Persian Wars. His narrative ranges across Egypt, Lydia, Persia, Scythia, Greece and many other societies, mixing inquiry, travel report, ethnography and political narrative.

For the site, Herodotus is central to Classical pages on the Persian Wars, ancient ethnography and Greek views of empire. He is a primary source for Thermopylae, Marathon, Salamis and the wider conflict between Greek cities and Achaemenid Persia.

Periods and events

Ancient Greece Classical Greece Greco-Persian Wars Ancient World Ancient Egypt Achaemenid Persian Empire

Non Fiction

Non Fiction by Herodotus (1 book)

Reference works, biographies and other non-fiction are kept separate from the historical novels above.