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The 97 pages that link to Herodotus, each with the reason it gives.

• Achaemenid EmpireRelated: His account is a major, though Greek-centered, source for the empire’s wars and customs.

• HomerRelated: He discussed Homer’s chronology and the origins of Greek religious traditions.

• Cyrus the GreatRelated: His later narrative preserves Greek traditions about Cyrus’s origins and rule.

• Greco-Persian WarsRelated: His account is the principal surviving narrative of the wars’ origins and campaigns.

• ScythiansRelated: His account is the fullest surviving ancient narrative of Scythian customs and history.

• Classical antiquityRelated: His work preserves an influential account of Greek encounters with the Persian Empire.

• NileRelated: His inquiry into the river’s flooding records an early debate about its origins.

• Battle of SalamisRelated: His narrative is a principal ancient account of Salamis and its surrounding events.

• PhoeniciaRelated: His account preserves Greek traditions about Phoenician origins and migration.

• Ancient GreekRelated: His prose illustrates Ionic Greek and the development of historical writing.

• Persian EmpireRelated: His account is a major, though Greek-centered, source for the empire’s wars with Greece.

• Xerxes IRelated: His narrative is the fullest surviving account of Xerxes’ invasion, though written from a Greek perspective.

• Battle of MarathonRelated: His account is the principal surviving narrative of Marathon’s events.

• ThemistoclesRelated: His narrative is a principal ancient source for Themistocles’s role at Salamis.

• Dionysius of HalicarnassusRelated: Dionysius engaged with Herodotus’s account linking the Etruscans to Lydia.

• MarathonRelated: His account of the battle differs from the later story of a messenger running to Athens.

• PhoeniciansRelated: His account preserves Greek perspectives on Phoenician origins and maritime activity.

• Pre-Islamic ArabiaRelated: His descriptions show how outsiders represented Arabia in classical antiquity.

• Twenty-sixth Dynasty of EgyptRelated: His account preserves influential, though not always independently verifiable, stories about Saite kings.

• PausaniasRelated: Pausanias’s interest in local customs and traditions recalls Herodotean inquiry.

• Thales of MiletusRelated: Herodotus preserves stories about Thales, including his reported prediction of a solar eclipse.

• Battle of PlataeaRelated: His narrative is the fullest surviving ancient account of the battle.

• Ancient Greek literatureRelated: His work exemplifies Greek prose narrative that combines history, geography, and ethnography.

• Interpretatio GraecaRelated: His accounts repeatedly compare foreign gods with Greek ones, including Egyptian deities with Greek counterparts.

• Ionian SeaRelated: His histories preserve ancient geographical knowledge of western Greek waters.

• MedesRelated: His account is a major narrative source for Median rulers and customs.

• AristidesRelated: His history provides an earlier account of the campaigns in which Aristides served.

• Battle of MycaleRelated: Herodotus preserves the fullest surviving narrative of Mycale and its disputed chronology.

• IoniaRelated: Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus, a neighboring region shaped by Ionian Greek culture.

• Median EmpireRelated: His account is the fullest narrative of Median origins and rule.

• MiletusRelated: His account preserves much of the surviving narrative about Miletus and the Ionian Revolt.

• SaisRelated: He described Sais and its traditions for Greek-speaking audiences.

• SolonRelated: Herodotus recounts Solon’s encounter with Croesus, a celebrated story about wealth and fortune.

• Battle of ThermopylaeRelated: His account is the main surviving narrative of Thermopylae.

• KhufuRelated: His much later narrative portrays Khufu differently from contemporary archaeological evidence.

• Second Persian invasion of GreeceRelated: His account is the principal surviving narrative of Xerxes’ invasion.

• WerewolfRelated: His account records an early ethnographic version of seasonal wolf transformation.

• Croesus (Lydian king)Related: His narrative is the fullest surviving account of Croesus.

• NaucratisRelated: His account preserves a key ancient description of Naucratis and its Greek sanctuaries.

• Psamtik IRelated: Herodotus preserved later accounts of Psamtik’s reign, including stories about language and isolation.

• Cleisthenes (Athenian statesman)Related: His account supplies a major narrative of Cleisthenes’ contest with Isagoras.

• EtemenankiRelated: His description of Babylon’s temple tower is a key classical account associated with Etemenanki.

• Phoenician religionRelated: His account of Tyrian worship at the Temple of Melqart offers an external witness to the cult.

• Royal RoadRelated: His account records the route's stations and the speed of royal messengers.

• Amasis IIRelated: Herodotus preserves prominent, though sometimes anecdotal, accounts of Amasis.

• Cambyses IIRelated: His vivid stories shaped later accounts, though their reliability is often questioned.

• HistoriesRelated: He is the work’s author and its speaking presence, weighing reports while narrating events.

• ProseRelated: His Histories are an early major work of Greek prose narrative.

• Siwa OasisRelated: His account of the oracle reflects Siwa’s place in Greek knowledge of Egypt.

• ThraciansRelated: His account is a major literary source for Thracian customs and geography.