Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. Plutarch has an essay titled On the Malice of Herodotus, where he notes, among other ...

Herodotus is well known as the “father of history”. As the first writer to use the Greek “historie,” meaning an inquiry, when speaking of examining the events of the past, his seminal work The ...

(Para. 196) Such is the equipment of their bodies: and the customs which are established among them are as follows, the wisest in our opinion being this, which I am informed that the Enetoi in Illyria ...

A HISTORY OF EXPLORATION—Sir Percy Sykes—Macmillan ($7). Who first went exploring purely in search of knowledge is unknown. Merchant-explorers more than three millennia before Christ were the ...

Di Scala, who is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Boston, has spent 12 years writing the book, which censures Herodotus’ “The Histories”. The Persian version of the book will ...

The story of the Graeco-Persian wars has been often told, by ancients and moderns alike. But early in this book Shepherd, a classicist with several works on Ancient Greek history under his belt, ...

*Originally published on Oct. 16, 2023. For someone who died more than 2,400 years ago, Herodotus's voice is still very much alive. "The directness of his voice sometimes feels like he is speaking ...