works of Herodotus

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ancient Greek historical work

The works of Herodotus are a foundational collection of ancient Greek historical writings, especially his "Histories," which chronicle the Greco-Persian Wars and various cultures of the ancient world.

Aliases (6)

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek historical work →
alternateTitle	The Histories of Herodotus →
author	Herodotus →
book1Title	Clio →
book2Title	Euterpe →
book3Title	Thalia →
book4Title	Melpomene →
book5Title	Terpsichore →
book6Title	Erato →
book7Title	Polyhymnia →
book8Title	Urania →
book9Title	Calliope →
bookCount	9 →
coversEvent	Battle of Marathon → Battle of Plataea → Battle of Salamis → Battle of Thermopylae → Ionian Revolt →
dateWritten	5th century BCE →
describesCulture	Babylonians → Egyptians → Lydians → Persians → Scythians →
describesRegion	Asia Minor → Black Sea region → Egypt → Mesopotamia →
genre	ethnography → geography → historiography →
historicalPeriod	Archaic Greece → early Classical Greece →
influenceOn	Roman historians → Thucydides → later Greek historians →
language	Ancient Greek →
legacy	foundation of Western historiography →
mainTopic	Greco-Persian Wars → customs of various peoples → rise of the Persian Empire →
method	inquiry based on travel and interviews →
namedAfter	the nine Muses →
notableFeature	frequent digressions → mixture of myth and history →
setting	Mediterranean world → Near East → North Africa →
structure	divided into nine books →

Referenced by (16)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Atossa ("Histories by Herodotus") → Bardiya ("Herodotus' Histories") → Cambyses II ("Herodotus' Histories") → Mandane of Media ("Herodotus' Histories") → Sicyon ("Herodotus’ Histories") →	mentionedIn
Battus I of Cyrene ("Herodotus' Histories") → Cleisthenes of Sicyon ("Herodotus' Histories") →	describedIn
Leonidas I ("Herodotus' Histories") → Spartan army ("Herodotus' Histories") →	representedIn
Histories ("The Histories of Herodotus") →	alternateTitle
Count László de Almásy ("Herodotus’s Histories") →	associatedWithObject
Cambyses I ("Herodotus' Histories") →	mentionedInSource
Battle of Thermopylae ("Herodotus' Histories") →	primaryAncientSource
Greco-Persian Wars ("Herodotus’ Histories") →	primarySource
Alcmaeonid family ("Herodotus’ Histories") →	subjectOf
Ionic Greek →	usedInWork