“Herodotus, the famed ancient Greek historian, lied about a pivotal battle between the Greeks and the Carthaginians, a new study finds.” —Live Science LIE: Cyrus the Great founded the Persian Empire.

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 ...

Ancient documents show that Argos once ruled over a small empire within Greece that has mostly been forgotten today.

One of the first to attempt to write down an account of the past, Herodotus helped establish a historical tradition that continues to this day. There are two ways to look at the question of who ...

Widely considered one of the first serious works of history, Histories—written in the 5th century BCE by the Greek scholar Herodotus—is a highly influential account of the Greco-Persian wars, and ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Towards the end of Herodotus' Histories, someone on the losing side of a fight is castrated by his ...

It is easy to see why Herodotus’ Histories may seem overwhelming. Too much is going on, right from the start. We have only just embarked on the Histories’ central theme – the origins of the conflict ...

Herodotus is the most entertaining of historians. Indeed, he is as entertaining as anyone who has ever written, historian or not. His great work is many things – the first example of non-fiction, the ...

Never before in contemporary world history has a President of the United States (POTUS) been so publicly maligned, abused and reviled, as Donald Trump through 2025-2026. Besides millions who have ...

Herodotus: The Histories. Translated by Tom Holland. Penguin Classics; 834 pages; £25. Buy from Amazon.co.uk OVER the course of the past decade Tom Holland, a British popular historian, has produced a ...