Herodotus Quotes

Greek historian and geographer (c.484–c.425 BC)

Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, Hēródotos) (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) was a historian, known for his writings on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels.

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Native Name: Ἡρόδοτος Ἁλικαρνᾱσσεύς

Alternative Names: Herodotus of Halicarnassus • Father of History • Herodotos

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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

From Peloponnesos (came) the Lakedaimonians..., the Corinthians..., the Sikyonians..., the Epidaurians..., the Troiezenians... All these (groups)... belong to the Dorian and Macedonian nation (and) had emigrated last from Erineus and Pindos and Dryopis.

Haste in every business brings failures.

From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.

But Alexander (I of Macedon), proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek; so he contended in the furlong race and ran a dead heat for first place.

Stranger, tell the people of Lacedaemon That we who lie here obeyed their commands.