Media Contributed by Rick
Darius I Darius I of Persia, as imagined by a Greek painter, 4th century BC
Herodotus Statue of Herodotus in his hometown of Halicarnassus, modern Bodrum, Turkey
Herodotus Relief by Jean-Guillaume Moitte (1806), Louvre, Paris
The Babylonian Marriage Market Edwin Long's 1875 interpretation of The Babylonian Marriage Market as described by Herodotus in Book 1 of the Histories
Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Louis David (1814)
Darius I Relief of Darius I in Persepolis
Fragment from Herodotus' Histories Book VIII on Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 2099, dated to early 2nd century AD
Herodotos Roman copy of the Imperial era (AD 2nd century) after a Greek bronze original of the first half of the 4th century BC
Scene of the Battle of the Thermopylae By John Steeple Davis - The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century (published in 1900)
Thermopylae Pass View of the Thermopylae pass from the area of the Phocian Wall. In ancient times, the coastline would have been much closer to the mountain, near the road to the right. This is a result of sedimentary deposition.
