[2] Most recent critics (e.g. Stein, Meyer, Busolt) put the visit to Egypt after the suppression of the revolt under Inarus and Amyrtaeus (i.e. after 449 B.C.), on the strength of Herod. 2. 30, which implies the restoration of Persian authority.
[3] Stein, Meyer, Busolt, and other recent writers attribute his departure from Halicarnassus to political causes, e.g. the ascendancy of the anti-Athenian party in the state.
[4] This story is on chronological grounds rejected by all recent critics.
[5] Opinion is divided as to this visit to Athens after his settlement at Thurii. Stein, Meyer and Busolt hold that much of his work (especially the later books) was composed at Athens soon after 430 B.C. See further Wachsmuth, _Rheinisches Museum_, lvi. (1901) 215-218. Macan, _Herodotus_ VII.-IX. (_Introduction_, pp. xlv.-lxvi.), seeks to prove that the last three books were the first part of the _Histories_ to be composed. He is followed in this view by Bury.
HÉROET, ANTOINE, surnamed LA MAISON-NEUVE (d. 1568), French poet, was born in Paris of a family connected with the famous chancellor, François Olivier. His poetry belongs to his early years, for after he had taken orders he ceased to write profane poetry, no doubt because he considered it out of keeping with his calling, in which he attained the dignity of bishop of Digue. His chief work is _La Parfaicte Amye_ (Lyons, 1542) in which he developed the idea of a purely spiritual love, based chiefly on the reading of the Italian Neo-Platonists. The book aroused great controversy. La Borderie replied in _L'Amye de cour_ with a description of a very much more human woman, and Charles Fontaine contributed a _Contr' amye de cour_ to the dispute. Héroet, in addition to some translations from the classics, wrote the _Complainte d'une dame nouvellement surprise d'amour_, an _Épistre a François I^er_, and some pieces included in the now very rare _Opuscules d'amour par Héroet, La Borderie et autres divins poëtes_ (Lyons, 1547). Héroet belongs to the Lyonnese school of which Maurice Scève may be regarded as the leader. Clément Marot praises him, and Ronsard was careful to exempt him with one or two others from the scorn he poured on his immediate predecessors.