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

• 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.

• Artemisia I of CariaRelated: His account is the fullest surviving source for Artemisia’s actions and reputation.

• AstyagesRelated: His account supplies the fullest surviving narrative of Astyages' downfall.

• NabonidusRelated: His narrative supplies a Greek perspective on Cyrus’s expansion that culminated in Babylon’s fall.

• Necho IIRelated: His account is the principal source for the canal and circumnavigation stories associated with Necho.

• Ancient Greek geographyRelated: His scrutiny of inherited geographic claims reveals how travel and inquiry shaped Greek knowledge.

• Ellen Churchill SempleRelated: Semple invoked Herodotus as an early observer of environmental influence on human life.

• Medieval travel literatureNarrower topic: His ethnographic model helped establish a tradition of writing about distant places.

• Psamtik IIIRelated: His account supplies much of the surviving narrative about Cambyses’ conquest of Egypt.

• SteganographyRelated: His account of Histiaeus is a major source for early message-concealment stories.

• Achaemenid royal roadRelated: His account preserves the best-known description of Persian couriers and their relay system.

• Artaxerxes IRelated: His work supplies context for the empire Artaxerxes inherited, though it predates his reign.

• Darius the GreatRelated: Herodotus preserves a Greek narrative of Darius’s reign that differs in emphasis from Persian royal inscriptions.

• BacchylidesRelated: His account of the Cean poet's family connects Bacchylides to his historical world.

• CimmeriansRelated: His account associates the Cimmerians with the early history of the Black Sea region.

• DeiocesRelated: He is the principal surviving source for Deioces’s rise and rule.

• Sacred prostitutionRelated: His account of Babylonian women’s alleged ritual sexual encounters became a central source for the label.

• Ancient historyRelated: His work is an early surviving example of inquiry into past events and peoples.

• ApriesRelated: Herodotus recounts Apries’s conflict with Amasis and gives a lasting version of his fate.

• Battle of ArtemisiumRelated: His account is the principal surviving narrative of the battle.

• CyropaediaCompared with: His account of Cyrus differs in tone and detail from Xenophon’s exemplary portrait.

• GelonRelated: His history records the Greek tradition linking Himera with the Persian invasion.

• Leonidas IRelated: His account is the principal ancient narrative of Leonidas and Thermopylae.

• MenesRelated: He recounts traditions about Menes and early Egyptian kingship.

• A True StoryRelated: Lucian’s opening criticism echoes disputes about truth and marvels associated with historical writing.

• Battle of AlaliaRelated: His brief account is the principal surviving narrative of the battle.

• First Persian invasion of GreeceRelated: His account is the principal surviving narrative of the invasion, though written decades later.

• Fountain of YouthRelated: His account of a rejuvenating spring in Ethiopia is an early surviving parallel to the legend.

• Salamis IslandRelated: His account is a major ancient source for the battle near the island.

• Athenian RevolutionRelated: His account is the principal surviving narrative of the uprising and its immediate background.

• Athens in the 5th century BCRelated: His account preserves stories about Athens’ conflicts with Persia and its Greek allies.

• Hamilcar I of CarthageRelated: His account links the Battle of Himera with the Persian invasion of Greece.

• History of GreeceRelated: His work is a major ancient account of Greek conflict and the peoples around it.

• Legendary creatureRelated: Herodotus recorded reports of extraordinary animals that shaped ancient ideas about distant lands.

• Lelantine WarRelated: His testimony helps connect the rival cities with later Greek conflicts.

• Phoenician historyRelated: His accounts preserve Greek-era claims about Phoenician origins, seafaring, and cultural exchange.

• Scylax of CaryandaRelated: He is the surviving source for Scylax’s voyage down the Indus.

• ScythiaRelated: His account is a major ancient source for locating Scythia and describing its peoples.

• TomyrisRelated: His account is the main ancient narrative of Tomyris’s conflict with Cyrus.