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...uote>The last king of the Median empire (reigned 585–550 bc). According to Herodotus, the Achaemenian Cyrus the Great was Astyages’ grandson through his daugh ...ive.org/stream/historiesofherod00herorich#page/42/mode/2up/search/astyages Herodotus's ''Histories'']. The action of the lost play most likely involved the foll

...and their ultimate defeat in the naval battle at Salamis, as recounted in Herodotus' ''Histories''. As Wiggins observes, the wax cake acquired for the performa ...e their city, deeming their goddess, too, to have deserted the acropolis. (Herodotus 8.41)

...viper's brood was a common Renaissance trope, based on legends recorded by Herodotus and Pliny. Vipers were believed to copulate violently, in an act that culmi

...Pythagoras and his followers appear in scattered sources such as Plato and Herodotus, much of our knowledge of this enigmatic sage derives from the third-centur