Patara Journal Correction : September 22 , 2005 , Thursday The Patara Journal article on Monday , about an archaeological excavation of the Lycian League parliament building in Patara , Turkey , referred incorrectly to the ancient Greek historian who wrote '' The Persian Wars , '' which mentions Patara as a port used by the Persians in the fifth century B.C . He was Herodotus , not Thucydides .