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...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 "

...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 bal

...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.)

...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. 1

Though Herodotus was skeptical about the physical existence of Oceanus, he rejected snowmelt

...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 2.144.1

...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 t

According to Herodotus (III.108), Hercules had three children by her:

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 o

...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.

Herodotus when reporting on the fauna of Libya, says there were pythons, lions, eleph

Herodotus in Book 1, Chapter 68, describes how the Spartans uncovered in Tegea the bo

Herodotus, often called the "father of history", visited Judea c.450 BC and wrote tha

...ulture, having adopted the rituals with the food itself. Larson notes that Herodotus uses the names Osiris and Dionysus interchangeably and Plutarch identifies

...], Milton's unorthodox religious perspective, Edmund Spenser, Homer, Ovid, Herodotus, the Roman poet Virgil, and ancient mythologies such as those of Greece, Ro

...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 north