Herodotus's Histories

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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:The_Histories
gptkbp:author Herodotus
gptkbp:contains mythology
natural history
political history
legends
military campaigns
accounts of battles
geographical descriptions
travel narratives
biographical sketches
accounts of kings
accounts of cities
accounts of customs
accounts of oracles
accounts of peoples
gptkbp:criticizedFor gptkb:Plutarch
gptkbp:dateWritten 5th century BCE
gptkbp:firstEnglishTranslation 1550
gptkbp:firstPublished 1502
gptkbp:genre history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Herodotus's Histories
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Thucydides
history
modern historians
Roman historians
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:oral_tradition
gptkbp:notableFor ethnographic information
storytelling style
digressions
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:praisedFor gptkb:Aristotle
gptkb:Cicero
gptkbp:preservedIn numerous manuscripts
gptkbp:referencedIn classical literature
modern scholarship
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Asia_Minor
gptkb:Egypt
gptkb:Persian_Empire
Ancient Greece
gptkbp:significance first major work of history in Western literature
gptkbp:structure nine books
gptkbp:studiedIn classical studies
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Greco-Persian_Wars
ancient history
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Scythia
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6