Herodotus' Histories

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkb:historical_documents
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Histories_of_Herodotus
gptkb:The_Histories
gptkbp:author Herodotus
gptkbp:book gptkb:Euterpe
gptkbp:citation gptkb:Aristotle
gptkb:Cicero
gptkb:Plutarch
gptkb:Lucian
gptkb:Strabo
gptkb:Pausanias
gptkb:Diodorus_Siculus
gptkb:Suda
Byzantine
gptkbp:dateWritten 5th century BCE
gptkbp:eighthBookTitle gptkb:Urania
gptkbp:fifthBook gptkb:Terpsichore
gptkbp:firstBook gptkb:Clio
gptkbp:firstPublished gptkb:Venice,_1502
gptkbp:fourthBookTitle gptkb:Melpomene
gptkbp:genre history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Herodotus' Histories
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Thucydides
gptkb:Western_historiography
gptkbp:ninthBookTitle gptkb:Calliope
gptkbp:notableFor ethnographic information
travel narratives
considered the founding work of history in Western literature
use of inquiry (historíē)
accounts of Croesus
accounts of Cyrus the Great
accounts of Darius I
accounts of Egyptian history
accounts of Greek city-states
accounts of Lydian kings
accounts of Scythian customs
accounts of Xerxes I
accounts of ancient economies
accounts of ancient geography
accounts of ancient myths
accounts of ancient politics
accounts of ancient religion
accounts of ancient rituals
accounts of ancient technology
accounts of ancient warfare
accounts of ancient wonders
accounts of the Oracle of Delphi
description of the Battle of Marathon
description of the Battle of Plataea
description of the Battle of Salamis
description of the Battle of Thermopylae
description of the rise of the Persian Empire
first systematic investigation of the past
mix of fact and legend
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Asia_Minor
gptkb:Egypt
gptkb:Persian_Empire
gptkb:Scythia
Ancient Greece
gptkbp:seventhBook gptkb:Polymnia
gptkbp:sixthBook gptkb:Erato
gptkbp:structure nine books
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Greco-Persian_Wars
ancient customs
ancient geography
gptkbp:survivingWorks numerous ancient manuscripts
gptkbp:theme fate
causes of war
conflict between Greeks and Persians
customs of different peoples
power and hubris
role of the gods
gptkbp:thirdPlace gptkb:Thalia
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Tom_Holland
gptkb:Aubrey_de_Sélincourt
gptkb:George_Rawlinson
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Babylon
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4