- ...indeed were mentioned as early as the 5th century BC in "the Histories" by Herodotus as Androphagi. In the fifth century BC, Herodotus, dubbed by Cicero "the father of history", wrote his famous work known as "1 KB (230 words) - 18:58, 18 April 2007
- ...said to be all bald from their birth, snubbed-nosed and with long beards [Herodotus, IV. 23]. Other pretend that they wear skull caps that make them appear bal495 bytes (74 words) - 08:38, 19 September 2011
- ...air of the men probably gave rise to the legend of androgyny. According to Herodotus, their young women held a ritual battle with sticks and stones annually wit ...for I maintain that the Greeks took their shield and helmet from Egypt." - Herodotus, Histories 4. 180. 1 (trans. Godley) (Greek historian C5th B.C.)2 KB (327 words) - 22:36, 18 September 2011
- ...when he travelled to the north and saw the Arimaspiansans, as reported by Herodotus. ...lands by the Arimaspoi, and the Skythians (Scythians) by the Issedones." - Herodotus, Histories 4. 13. 13 KB (491 words) - 21:36, 18 September 2011
- Though Herodotus was skeptical about the physical existence of Oceanus, he rejected snowmelt4 KB (701 words) - 17:25, 18 April 2007
- ...eserver; in Egyptian, Apollon is Horus, Demeter Isis, Artemis Bubastis." - Herodotus, Histories 2.156.1 ...last divine king of Egypt. Osiris is, in the Greek language, Dionysos." - Herodotus, Histories 2.144.110 KB (1,716 words) - 18:47, 27 December 2007
- ...which floated. On this island, ''Khemmis'', stood a temple to Apollo, but Herodotus dismissed the claim that it floated as merely the legend of Delos brought t13 KB (2,300 words) - 18:51, 18 April 2007
- According to Herodotus (III.108), Hercules had three children by her:4 KB (686 words) - 23:41, 16 February 2011
- Levi called his image “the Baphomet of Mendes”, presumably following Herodotus' account that the god of Mendes was depicted with a goat's face and legs. H ...children to a seated goat. Levi also incorrectly identified Baphomet with Herodotus' mistaken "Goat of Mendes". Further fanciful connections link the ram-god o18 KB (2,882 words) - 15:57, 24 January 2008
- ...nated in Ethiopia; and Bulfinch wrote that their native country was India. Herodotus said that legends of griffins came from the Issedonians who lived beyond th ...ic poem of Aristeas of Proconnesus, ''Arimaspea'', and eagerly reported by Herodotus and in Pliny's Natural History.19 KB (3,081 words) - 15:46, 18 January 2012
- Herodotus when reporting on the fauna of Libya, says there were pythons, lions, eleph13 KB (2,337 words) - 22:49, 17 December 2007
- Herodotus in Book 1, Chapter 68, describes how the Spartans uncovered in Tegea the bo16 KB (2,487 words) - 21:18, 10 July 2010
- Herodotus, often called the "father of history", visited Judea c.450 BC and wrote tha23 KB (3,729 words) - 08:50, 19 January 2009
- ...ulture, having adopted the rituals with the food itself. Larson notes that Herodotus uses the names Osiris and Dionysus interchangeably and Plutarch identifies19 KB (3,083 words) - 17:24, 19 September 2011
- ...], Milton's unorthodox religious perspective, Edmund Spenser, Homer, Ovid, Herodotus, the Roman poet Virgil, and ancient mythologies such as those of Greece, Ro31 KB (5,303 words) - 17:56, 18 April 2007
- ...of participation in the Lycaean sacrifice by the descendant of Antaeus. [[Herodotus]] in his ''Histories'' tells that the Neuri, a tribe he places to the north28 KB (4,630 words) - 19:11, 20 January 2011