Herodotus

Historian, ca. 485–424 BCE.

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Hdt. 1.34–45

Croesus

Associated with the death of Croesus' son Atys.

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Hdt. 1.107–130 (bis)

Astyages

Before the birth of Cyrus the Great, associated with his rule.

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Hdt. 1.209–210

Cyrus the Great

Shortly before Cyrus' death in his war with the Massagetae, associated with Darius' rule.

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Hdt. 2.139; 152

Shabaka

Associated with the end of Sabacos' rule.

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Hdt. 2.141

Sethos

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Shortly before the battle at Pelusium during Sennacherib's invasion of Egypt; while sleeping in the temple of Ptah ("Hephaestus").

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Hdt. 3.30; 61–66

Cambyses II

Associated with the death of Smerdis, son of Cyrus II, and the coup of the magus Smerdis.

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Hdt. 3.124–125

daughter of Polycrates

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Shortly before Polycrates' death.

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Hdt. 3.149

Otanes

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Associated with the resettlement of Samos.

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Hdt. 4.172

Nasamones

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Practice of divination by sleeping on ancestors' tombs among the Nasamones in Libya.

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Hdt. 5.55–56; 62

Hipparchus

On the night before Hipparchus' death.

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Hdt. 6.107

Hippias

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Shortly before the Battle of Marathon.

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Hdt. 6.118

Datis

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Associated with the cult of Apollo at the Delium in Boeotia; during the First Persian War (?).

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Hdt. 6.131

Agariste

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A few days before the birth of Pericles.

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Hdt. 7.12–18; 47

Xerxes I , Artabanus

Shortly before the Second Persian War.

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Hdt. 7.19

Xerxes I

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Shortly before the Second Persian War.

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Hdt. 8.54

Xerxes I

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During the Second Persian War, associated with the cult of Athena on the Acropolis at Athens.

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