c. 484-c. 425 BC · Greek historian of the Persian Wars, called the father of history by Cicero
Posthumous or imagined likeness of Herodotus. Source · CC0
About Herodotus
Herodotus (c. 484–c. 425 BCE) was born in Halicarnassus, a Greek city in Caria under Persian rule. Exiled after political troubles, he travelled widely in Egypt, the Near East, the Black Sea region and Greece, gave public readings in Athens, and is said to have settled at the Athenian colony of Thurii in southern Italy. Cicero called him the father of history.
The Histories is the first great work of prose history in the Western tradition, an inquiry (historia) into the causes and course of the wars between the Greeks and the Persian Empire. Herodotus states his purpose in the opening: to preserve the memory of great and marvellous deeds of Greeks and barbarians, and especially the reason why they fought one another.
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