Crossword-Solution: HERODOTUS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| "Father of History" | 1 answer |
| "The father of history" | 1 answer |
| Chronicler of the Greco-Persian Wars | 1 answer |
| Father history | 1 answer |
| Great Greek historian | 1 answer |
| Greco-Persian Wars chronicler | 1 answer |
| Greek "Father of History" | 1 answer |
| HISTORY, father of | 1 answer |
| history Father | 1 answer |
| Greek historian. | 3 answers |
| History | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CZAEEM
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eruption
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Sentences with HERODOTUS (5)
Lorenzo Valla, one of the most famous promoters of Italian learning, not only translated into Latin the Iliad of Homer and the Histories of Herodotus and Thucydides, but also the Fables of Aesop.
All that we know about him is contained in a few lines of Herodotus: that he flourished 550 B.C.; was killed in accordance with a Delphian oracle; and that _wergild_ was claimed for him by the grandson of his master, Iadmon.
Herodotus says that it was impossible to tell whether the influence of the Egyptians on the Ethiopians was stronger than that of the Ethiopians on the Egyptians.
They were the people Herodotus wrote about, didn’t he? But I thought they were mythical.” “They were very real, and so was Atlantis, the continent where they lived, which lay just north of the Canaries here.” “What’s that crocodile sort of thing with wings drawn in the margin?” “Some sort of beast that lived in those bygone days.
HOMERICA THE EXPEDITION OF AMPHIARAUS Fragment #1—Pseudo-Herodotus, Life of Homer: Sitting there in the tanner’s yard, Homer recited his poetry to them, the _Expedition of Amphiarus to Thebes_ and the _Hymns to the Gods_ composed by him.
Quotes with HERODOTUS (3)
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden image of a corpse in a coffin, carved and painted to look as much like the real thing as possible, and anything from 18 inches to 3 foot long; he shows it to each guest in turn, and says: "Look upon this body as you drink and enjoy yourself; for you will be just like it when you are dead."[Herodotus ‘Histories’, II 82]
Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer — Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus — Tragedies4. Sophocles — Tragedies5. Herodotus — Histories6. Euripides — Tragedies7. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates — Medical Writings9. Aristophanes — Comedies10. Plato — Dialogues11. Aristotle — Works12. Epicurus — Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid — Elements14. Archimedes — Works15. Apollonius of Perga — Conic Sections16. Cicero — Works17…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1972–2022).