A concept that is described as “like a beetle in the rose” by Jackson Hershbell is ascribed to this man in an essay criticized for its biased view attacking this man’s criticism of the Greek states. That essay “On the Malice of [this man]” accuses him of lying by claiming that Queen Artemisia was prophetic. Urania is the 8th of nine books named for the Muses that make up a work by this man. A dialogue in which (*) Solon tells Croesus of Lydia of Tellus’s happiness appears in this historian’s magnum opus. This historian’s description of gold-digging ants in India appears in that work, which opens by depicting the Trojan War following the abductions of Europa, Medea, and Io. In his treatise De Legibus, Cicero lauded, for 10 points, what Ancient Greek author of Histories from Halicarnassus as the “father of history?” ■END■
ANSWER: Herodotus of Halicarnassus
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