HERODOTUS-THE GREEK HISTORIAN

Herodotus-The Greek historian

Herodotus-The Greek historian

Herodotus was a Greek historian, usually called the Father of History. The work of Herodotus is the oldest enduring foremost Greek prose and the first annals in Western civilization.

He was born at Halicarnassus, a Greek state under Persian direct, in southwestern Asia Minor. After a municipal conflict, he left his homeland for good and expended some time in close by Ionia. Then he traveled widely: as far south as Elephantine in Egypt; eastward into Asia to Babylon; and north to the far seaboard area of the Black Sea. He dwelled in Periclean Athens for a ...