The Histories

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:book
gptkbp:author Herodotus
gptkbp:book gptkb:Euterpe
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin Ancient Greece
gptkbp:dateWritten 5th century BCE
gptkbp:eighthBookTitle gptkb:Urania
gptkbp:fifthBook gptkb:Terpsichore
gptkbp:firstBook gptkb:Clio
gptkbp:fourthBookTitle gptkb:Melpomene
gptkbp:genre history
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Histories
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Thucydides
gptkb:Western_historiography
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:print
gptkb:manuscript
gptkbp:ninthBookTitle gptkb:Calliope
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:oral_tradition
myth and legend
ethnographic information
use of inquiry (historíē)
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
accounts of customs and geography
critical approach to sources
description of Aristagoras
description of Babylonian customs
description of Croesus
description of Cyrus the Great
description of Darius I
description of Egyptian customs
description of Leonidas I
description of Lydian customs
description of Miltiades
description of Scythian customs
description of Themistocles
description of Xerxes I
description of the Ionian Revolt
description of the Oracle of Delphi
description of the Pythia
description of the customs of the Athenians
description of the customs of the Babylonians
description of the customs of the Egyptians
description of the customs of the Ethiopians
description of the customs of the Greeks
description of the customs of the Indians
description of the customs of the Libyans
description of the customs of the Lydians
description of the customs of the Medes
description of the customs of the Persians
description of the customs of the Phoenicians
description of the customs of the Scythians
description of the customs of the Spartans
description of the customs of the Thracians
founding work of history in Western literature
description of the conquest of Egypt by Cambyses II
gptkbp:numberOfBooks 9
gptkbp:originalLanguage gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:publisher various
gptkbp:setting gptkb:Egypt
gptkb:Persian_Empire
gptkb:Scythia
Ancient Greece
gptkbp:seventhBook gptkb:Polymnia
gptkbp:sixthBook gptkb:Erato
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Greco-Persian_Wars
ancient history
gptkbp:thirdPlace gptkb:Thalia
gptkbp:translatedInto gptkb:Aubrey_de_Sélincourt
gptkb:George_Rawlinson
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Herodotus'_Histories
gptkb:Polybius
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5