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Herodotus

Greek historian and geographer (c.484–c.425 BC)

  • Fame86.8
  • Momentum8.8
  • Global rank#150
Source-basedFalling
  • Fame86.8
  • Momentum8.8
  • Global rank#150
  • Turkey rank#4
  • Writers rank#29
  • Wikipedia84.2K
Lived -484–-425, aged 59Turkey
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    148 languages
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  • Global rank
    #150
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  • Era
    -484–-425
    Aged 59
Summary
Updated 2026-08-13

He wrote down the wars between Greece and Persia when no one else was keeping score that way, mixing battle reports with travelers' tales and whatever people told him. Cicero called him "The Father of History." Thucydides called him a liar.

Biography

About

Herodotus came from Halicarnassus, a Greek city under Persian rule in the 5th century BC, and later settled in Thurii in what's now southern Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars and the rise of Cyrus's Achaemenid dynasty, covering Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and the other collisions that defined the age. The work veered off into ethnography, geography, and cultural sketches—context that made the narrative richer and stranger. His contemporaries, Thucydides chief among them, accused him of stuffing his pages with legends and fabrications for entertainm…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Herodotus

Herodotus
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I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
— Book 1, Ch.5.
Herodotus
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Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
— Book 1, Ch. 8.
Herodotus
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In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.
— Variant translation: In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
Herodotus
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It was a kind of Cadmean victory.
— Book 1, Ch. 166, referring to a victory where both sides suffer extreme losses. Derived from the legends of Thebes, where the sons of
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From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.
— Book 2, Ch. 120.
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Fame
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86.8
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Momentum8.8
Historical27.0
Now attention25.9
Source confidence60.0
Completeness70.0
Global rank
#150
Country rank
#4
Category rank
#29
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    wikidata · wikidata.org
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    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence