The library of Herodotus

1. Homer 1 authority · 2 neutral · 1 refuted 4 citations

   The Histories

   book 2 · book 4 · book 5 · book 7

   4 citations

   and I suppose that Homer or some older poet invented this name and brought it into his poetry.

2. Odyssey Homer 1 authority · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   The Histories

   book 2 · book 4

   2 citations

   In these verses the poet shows that he knew of Alexander 's wanderings to Egypt;

3. Aeschylus 1 neutral 1 citation

   The Histories

   book 2

   1 citation

   It was from this legend and no other that Aeschylus son of Euphorion took a notion which is in no poet before him:

4. Hesiod 1 neutral 1 citation

   The Histories

   book 4

   1 citation

   But Hesiod speaks of Hyperboreans, and Homer too in his poem The Heroes' Sons, if that is truly the work of Homer.

5. Iliad Homer 1 endorsed 1 citation

   The Histories

   book 2

   1 citation

   This is apparent from the passage in the Iliad (and nowhere else does he return to the story) where he relates the wanderings of Alexander, and shows how he and Helen were carried off course, and wandered to, among other places, Sidon in Phoenicia.

6. Pindar 1 endorsed 1 citation

   The Histories

   book 3

   1 citation

   and it is, I think, rightly said in Pindar 's poem that custom is lord of all.

Each of these stands at a single passage, named once and not held by the library. The work that names it carries the anchor.

The Histories

oracle concerning the Battle of Salamis · Arimaspea · Corinthians and Lesbians · Cypria (the Cyprian poems) · Darius's inscribed pillar at the source of the Tearus · Delphians · Delphic oracle commanding the Lacedaemonians to demand justice for Leonidas · Delphic oracle instructing prayer to the winds · Delphic oracle response bribed by the Alcmaeonidae (bidding Sparta free Athens) · Delphic oracle response to Cleisthenes of Sicyon (on Adrastus) · Delphic oracle response to Eetion · Delphic oracle response to the Athenians (thirty-year restraint on Aegina) · Delphic oracle response to the Cretans · Delphic oracle response to the Epidaurians (on Damia and Auxesia) · Delphic oracle response to the Thebans (the 'many-voiced' and 'nearest') · Delphic oracle to the Argives · Delphic oracle's response to Dorieus · Delphic oracle's response to the Siphnians · Earlier Delphic oracle to the Bacchiadae (the eagle and the lion) · First Delphic oracle to the Athenians · Hecataeus's history (account of the Pelasgian expulsion) · Herodotus's own promised account of Babylon's kings (his Assyrian history) · Iambic verses ¶ · Mandrocles' dedicatory inscription at the Heraion (poem commemorating the Bosporus bridge) · Milesians · Oracle concerning Miletus and Argos · Oracle given to the Paeonians concerning Perinthus · Oracle instructing the Athenians to invoke their son-in-law as an ally · Oracle of Amphiaraus concerning the Thebans · Oracle of Buto's prophecy concerning Cambyses · Oracle of Ptoan Apollo delivered through Mys · Oracle on Demaratus' paternity · Oracle on making both twin sons kings · Oracle on the shaking of Delos · Oracle prescribing the Achaean sacrificial rule for Phrixus' descendants · Oracle response concerning the wooden wall · Oracle response given to Tisamenus at Delphi · Oracle response on the Delphic sacred treasure · Oracle to Cleomenes on taking Argos · Oracle to the Argives and Milesians ('when the female defeats the male') · Oracle to the Dolonci and Miltiades concerning a founder for the Chersonese · Oracle verses concerning Euboea · Oracle warning Glaucus against a false oath · Oracles of Laius · Oracles of Musaeus · Oracular response of the Pythia at Delphi ¶ · Oracular response to Apollonia concerning Evenius · Oracular verses on the Persian defeat · Persian account of origins · Phoenician account of Io · Prophecy concerning the destruction of the Persians at Plataea · Second Delphic oracle to the Athenians (the wooden wall oracle) · Solon's saying that no one among the living is fortunate · Thales' prediction of the solar eclipse · The Delphic oracle of Apollo (Loxias) · The Fall of Miletus · a genealogy tracing descent from a god in the sixteenth generation · a law requiring annual declaration of livelihood · a poem attacking Kharaxus · epitaph for Megistias · hymn to Opis and Arge · oracle concerning the Colian women and the shore of Colias · oracle given to Cypselus at Delphi · oracle response to Sparta concerning the war · oracular response concerning Aristeas' vision · poem extolling Philocyprus · poem to Melanippus (on the loss of his armor) · praise poem for Eualcides · responses of the Delphic Oracle to Croesus, Lycurgus, and the Lacedaemonians · saying about Cythera · the oracle given to the Cnidians (a Delphic verse oracle) · the oracular response of Ammon concerning the extent of Egypt · the poems establishing the gods' genealogy, names, provinces, and forms

6 works in the library quote Herodotus — 8 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

through Herodotus 6 citations · the Histories 2 citations

Cicero, Marcus Tullius 2 citations · Clement of Alexandria 2 citations · Hugo Grotius 2 citations · Dio Chrysostom 1 citation · Tertullian 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Herodotus is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages

   book 1 · book 6 2 passages anchored here

   Clement cites Herodotus as authority for the claim that Darius I broke the rule of the Magi.

   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.

2. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority · 1 neutral 2 citations

   ch. 11 · ch. 28

   Herodotus's Polyhymnia is explicitly named as the source of the Mardonius episode.

   ” 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.

3. On Moral Ends Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation

   book 2

   Explicitly attributed to Herodotus by name as the source of the recorded precept.

   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.

4. Tusculan Disputations Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 authority 1 citation

   book 1

   Explicitly named as the authority ('on the authority of Herodotus') underlying the school tradition described.

   — 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.

5. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 endorsed 1 citation

   oration 88

   Herodotus's history is explicitly recommended and characterized for the addressee's reading.

   With Herodotus, then, if ever you have need of cheerfulness, you will consort with much repose.

6. De Anima Tertullian 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   de anima 2 passages anchored here

   Herodotus is cited twice as the authoritative historical source for notable dream and ethnographic reports.

   Herodotus relates that Astyages, king of the Medes, saw in a dream that the bladder of his daughter Mandane, still a virgin, flowed forth into a deluge of Asia;