Herodotus
Greek historian and geographer (c. 484-c. 425 BC) · Turkey · Writers · Lived 484 BC to 425 BC · aged 59
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Something wrong?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.
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, I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons.
About this person
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 entertainment's sake. Herodotus answered that he reported what he saw and what he heard. Modern archaeology has since confirmed a sizeable portion of what he set down.
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