Herodotus and the Topography of Xerxes' Invasion: Place and Memory in Greece and Anatolia - Paperbackby Jan Zacharias Van Rookhuijzen (Author) In his Histories, Herodotus of Halicarnassus gave an account of Xerxes' invasion of Greece (480 BCE). Among the information in this work features a rich topography of the places visited by the army, as well as of the battlefields. Apparently there existed a certain demand among the Greeks to behold the exact places where they believed that the Greeks had fallen, gods had appeared, or Xerxes had watched over