Herodotus, one of the earliest writers now to be called a historian, lived when?
Candaules invisible and usurp the throne, a plot device which reappeared in numerous myths and works of fiction throughout history. The earliest story, related by Herodotus in the 5th century BC, has Candaules betrayed and executed by his wife, Nyssia, in a cautionary tale against pride and possession. According to Herodotus in "The Histories", Candaules believed his wife to be the most beautiful woman on Earth. Herodotus does not name the queen but later artists and writers have called her Nyssia. Candaules often told his favourite bodyguard, Gyges, how beautiful the queen was and, thinking Gyges did not believe him, urged
On the Malice of Herodotus On the Malice of Herodotus On the Malice of Herodotus or On the Malignity of Herodotus () is an essay by Plutarch criticizing the historian Herodotus for all manner of prejudice and misrepresentation in the latter's "Histories". It has been called the "first instance in literature of the slashing review." The 19th-century English historian George Grote considered this essay a serious attack upon the works of Herodotus, and speaks of the "honourable frankness which Plutarch calls his malignity." Plutarch makes some palpable hits, catching Herodotus out in various errors, but it is also probable that it was merely a rhetorical