The author described relevant geographical characteristics and the most striking Egyptian customs.
The second book is about Egypt and its great marvels. According to this historian, he incited conflict between the Greeks and Persians. In the first book, he covered the possible causes of the Greco-Persian wars. He focused on the reign of Lydia in the times of King Croesus. His long work, the Histories, is divided into 9 books: It changed the way people wrote about history. This use of direct sources, both oral and written, is what made Herodotus’ work legendary. In fact, he stressed both the importance and difficulty of using various sources to describe a historic event in order to make them as truthful as possible. Herodotus explained in his work how and why he collected the information that he used to describe an event. He also used written sources produced by epic poets and logographers. 
When he couldn’t gather information directly, he relied on oral testimonies from the natives of the lands he visited. Also, he described the customs of the people he visited as well as their most striking peculiarities. He used descriptions of the geographic characteristics of places. Search for and gather information about the things people witnessed. This is clearly reflected in his method of collecting sources. As such, it’s no surprise that he wrote down everything he saw and heard during his journeys. While the Muses were Homer’s primary inspiration, Herodotus focused on collecting information. They narrated in the third person and used elevated language.Īnother great difference between epic poems and Herodotus’ historiography are the sources he used. Nevertheless, both narrators had certain things in common. Despite the fact that Homer, the narrator of the Illiad and the Odyssey, clearly influenced Herodotus, he didn’t try to adapt his style in these works. 
These events were recorded in prose rather than poetry. However, that’s not all he covered, as the Histories sometimes strayed from this main topic. The events that Herodotus recorded were centered on the Greco-Persian Wars (492 – 478 BC), where the Greeks and the Persian Empire fought.
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