Herodotus

Herodotus

male
historian, ". He is almost exclusively known for writing, Greco-Persian Wars, Black Sea, Hērodotos Halikarnāsseus, known for writing…Histories, The Histories
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: "Hērodotos Halikarnāsseus") was a Greek historian from Ionia who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. 425 BC...

Hesiod

male
poet, ancient greek, homer, greek, aristarchus, greek mythology…Histories
Hesiod (Greek: "Hesiodos") was an early Greek poet and rhapsode, who presumably lived around 700 BC. Hesiod and Homer, with whom Hesiod is often...
Tacitus

Tacitus

male, deceased (117)
senator, Silver Age Latin author, Latin writer, annalist, historiographical, Historiography…Histories
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 56 - ca. 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major...

Aristeas

male
poet, Southern Italy, Histories, The History, Hyperboreans, Proconnesus
Aristeas was a semi-legendary Greek poet and miracle-worker, a native of Proconnesus in Asia Minor, active ca. 7th century BCE. In book IV of "The...

Cadmus

male
trojan war, Thebes, Greek mythological, Histories, Boeotia, Theban King
Cadmus, or Kadmos, in Greek mythology, was the son of the king of Phoenicia (Currently Lebanon)and brother of Europa. His father is either Agenor,...
David Grene

David Grene

male, deceased (2002)
The Prodigals, Of Farming and Classics, Classical scholar, Irish, Greek-English translator, Translator…Histories, The Histories of Herodotus
David Grene (1913-2002) was a professor of classics at the University of Chicago from 1937 until his death. He was a co-founder of the Committee on...

Lydus

male
lydia, King of Lydia, Histories, Atys
Lydus was the third king of Maeonia in succession to his father Atys. He was the third and last king of the Atyad dynasty; see List of Kings of...

Pheidippides

male
ancient greek, Phidippides, Persian Wars, Marathon, Greece, Battle of Marathon, Joy in his blood bursting his heart, - the bliss!…Histories
Pheidippides (sometimes given as "Phidippides" or "Philippides"), hero of Ancient Greece, is the central figure in a story which was the...

Cluvius Rufus

male
Roman era historian, annals, Histories, Antiquities of the Jew, The Lives of Twelve Caesars, The Parallel Lives
Cluvius Rufus was a Roman senator, governor and historian who was mentioned on several occasions by Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus and Plutarch....

Pythius

male
ancient greek, xerxes, lydia, lydian, darius, Persian Empire…Histories
Pythius is a Lydian who’s mentioned in book VII of Herodotus' "Histories", 27-29 and 38-39. Xerxes, king of Persia, son of Darius, encounters Py...