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Herootus of Halicarnassus (Greek: Ἡρόδοτος Ἁλικαρνᾱσσεύς Hēródotos Halikarnāsseús) was a Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (c. 484 BC–c. 425 BC) and is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture. He was the first historian to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. He is almost exclusively known for writing The Histories, a record of his "inquiries" (or ἱστορίαι, a word that passed into Latin and took on its modern connotation of history) into the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars which occurred in 490 and 480-479 BC—especially since he includes a narrative account of that period, which would otherwise be poorly documented, and many long digressions concerning the various places and peoples he encountered during wide-ranging travels around the lands of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Although some of his stories are not completely accurate, he states that he is only reporting what has been told him, and here displays an honesty lacking in many historians.

Trivia about herodotus

  • This father of history reports that the ancient Etruscans were originally Lydians
  • This ancient Greek historian called Egypt "the gift of the Nile"
  • His 5th century B.C. writings traced the struggles between the Greeks & the Persian Empire
  • This "father" began his influential "history" around 443 B.C.
  • Postal slogan "Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night..." was coined by this Greek historian
  • The "Histories" of this "Father of History" told of the Persian Empire's invasions of Greece in 490 & 480 B.C.
  • In the 5th century B.C. he added a great description of the land of Egypt to his great history work
  • In the 5th century B.C., this Greek historian wrote that it took 100,000 men 20 years to complete the Great Pyramid
  • The U.S. Post Office can thank this "father of history" for writing "neither snow nor rain", etc.
  • Cicero dubbed this man the "Father of History"
  • In the 400s B.C. this Greek historian told the story of the rescue of the poet Arion by a dolphin

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