Herodotos

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of Herodotus. alt-of, alternative

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἡρόδοτος (Hēródotos).

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