Who was Gordias, the legendary father of rich King Midas? Legend connects him to the Gordian knot, famously cut by Alexander ...

According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and Achaemenes.

Or is it? Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BC, was a Greek who lived mostly in Greek-colonized cities in what is now modern Turkey and southern Italy.

Known as the grandfather of history, Herodotus was ancient Greek scholar wrote at length about the ancient world, including details of the Great Pyramid’s construction, however the accuracy or ...

Or is it? Herodotus, writing in the fifth century BC, was a Greek who lived mostly in Greek colonized cities in what is now modern Turkey and southern Italy.

Essential background and context ... including what we know about the life of Herodotus, the key influences on him, his intended audience and possible reasons for writing the book, and the general ...

The idea of werewolves has existed since long before movies came along. The concept goes back to antiquity with ancient Greek historian Herodotus writing in the fifth century B.C. about a colony ...

Though the first recorded use of the term Palestine was by the Greek historian Herodotus in the 5th Century BCE, a reference to the Philistines, a long-since extinct people who had previously ...

The Herodotus project aims to preserve and highlight historical archives from Cyprus and the North Aegean. It includes audiovisual, music and collections of local newspaper archives.