Herodotus

For having first spread a report that Athena was bringing Pisistratus back, and having found a tall and beautiful woman—as Herodotus says, from the deme of the Paeanians, but as some say, a Thracian garland-seller from Collytus, whose name was Phye—he had her imitate the goddess in her adornment and brought her in along with him;

For when once the happy life has been taken up, it remains as long as wisdom herself, the producer of the happy life, and does not await the last span of life — that which Herodotus writes was the precept given by Solon to Croesus.

— Men are wont in the schools to bring forward the judgements of the immortal gods concerning death — nor indeed do they invent these themselves, but on the authority of Herodotus and several others.

And in the second year of the reign of Darius, whom Herodotus says broke the rule of the Magi, Zorobabel the son of Salathiel is sent to raise and adorn the temple in Jerusalem.

Now among the many rulers of this city of Babylon (whom I shall mention in my Assyrian history) who finished the building of the walls and the temples, there were two that were women.

” Mardonius, in the Polyhymnia of Herodotus, blames the Grecians, who, being united in one language, might settle their quarrels by messengers of peace, by heralds, and negotiations, rather than by war.