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Herodotos
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English
Etymology
en grc Ἡρόδοτος.
Proper noun
en Herodotus.
1892 July w:William Cranston Lawton Looking Toward Salamis https://web.archive.org/web/20220525032224/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1892/07/looking-toward-salamis/634594/ Perhaps the most surprising characteristic, however, of Herodotos’ literary work is the outward unity which he has so largely succeeded in giving to this somewhat heterogeneous mass of information concerning nearly all the nations of the earth then known to the Greeks.
22 March 1994 Jan Breslauer THEATER REVIEW : An Eclectic ‘Oresteia’ Opens Actors’ Gang’s New Home https://web.archive.org/web/20251110151941/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-22-ca-37014-story.html They are shadowed by a robed chorus of Beckettian sages--Homer (Joseph Grimm), Hesiod (Gary Kelley), Herodotos (Daniel Parker) and Thucydides (Michael Rivkin)--given to Joseph Campbell-like pronouncements on the power of myth.
27 October 1998 Suzy Menkes Russian Heritage:Inspiration in Gold, Humanity in Ivory https://archive.ph/feGGg https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/27/style/IHT-russian-heritageinspiration-in-gold-humanity-in-ivory.html 10 November 2025 The Scythian collection is designed not just to echo a past civilization, recorded in the classical works of Herodotos and Pliny; it is also intended as a clarion call to the Russians to look to their jewelry heritage and their wealth of precious stones.
Finnish
Etymology
From fi grc Ἡρόδοτος.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Herodotus ancient Greek historian
Declension
Herodoto a sg