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Panyassis. (uncle or cousin) Herodotus [a] ( Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized : Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, part of the Persian Empire (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy.
Jun 25, 2024 · Herodotus (born 484 bce?, Halicarnassus, Asia Minor [now Bodrum, Turkey]?—died c. 430–420) was the Greek author of the first great narrative history produced in the ancient world, the History of the Greco-Persian Wars.
Oct 19, 2022 · Herodotus (l. c. 484 – 425/413 BCE) was a Greek historian famous for his work Histories. He was called The Father of History by the Roman writer Cicero, who admired him, but has also been rejected as...
Feb 4, 2010 · Herodotus was a Greek writer credited with being the first historian. Sometime around 425 B.C., he published The Histories, an inquiry into the Greco-Persian Wars.
Herodotus , (born 484?, Helicarnassus, Asia Minor—died 430/420 bc), Greek historian. He resided in Athens and then in Thurii in southern Italy. His travels covered a large part of the Persian empire.
May 18, 2018 · Herodotus >Herodotus (ca. 484 B.C.-ca. 425 B.C.) was the first Greek writer who >succeeded in writing a large-scale historical narrative that has survived >the passage of time. In the lifetime of Herodotus the writing of history, and indeed of prose of any sort, was still something of a novelty.
First, Herodotus composes in prose form, not poetry, and second, Herodotus concentrates not on the mythical past but primarily on events within the last several hundred years and especially on the rise of Persia, culminating in Xerxes’ invasion of Greece, which had taken place within the preceding hundred years or so.
Herodotus wrote only one book, known today as the Histories. The Greek word that forms its title, historiai, from which our word “history” derives, means inquiries—and so a more accurate title might be the Inquiries of Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
Aug 5, 2018 · Herodotus' Histories, celebrating the Greek victory over the Persians, were written in the mid-fifth century B.C. Herodotus wanted to present as much information about the Persian War as he could. What sometimes reads like a travelogue, includes information on the entire Persian Empire, and simultaneously explains the origins ( aitia ) of the ...
Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a fifth-century BCE Hellenic traveler and thinker, a student of human beings in all our variety. He is commonly referred to as “the father of history,” an appellation given him by the Roman orator and politician Cicero.
