Herodotus became a historic Greek historian
who was born in Halicarnassus within the Persian Empire. He's regarded for
having written the book The Histories, an in-depth document of his "inquiry"
at the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars.
He’s widely taken
into consideration to had been the first creator to
have dealt with historic topics using several systematic investigation
techniques especially, by gathering his substances and
then critically arranging them right into a historiographical
narrative. On account of this, he's frequently known
as "the Father of History", a name first conferred on
him with the aid of the primary-century BC Roman orator Cicero.
Scholar Robin
Waterfield comments on Herodotus' early life:
“Herodotus
was not a native of Athens. He was born in Halicarnassus (the modern Turkish city of
Bodrum), about the time of the Persian Wars. Halicarnassus was a Dorian town with substantial intermarriage among
its Greek, Carian, and Persian populations...If the later ancient reports that
have come down to us are correct, his family was exiled during the troubled
years after the Persian Wars, and as a very young man, Herodotus may have lived on the island of Samos. His
occasional comments in the Histories show us that he traveled widely around the world of the east Mediterranean. We do not know when and how the Histories were first written down; very
likely, however, they arose out of recitations or readings that he gave over a
number of years in other Greek cities and
in Athens at the height of its imperial power.”
Source of information - In preparing his history, Herodotus’
sources of information included predecessors work but most of his work was
broadly complemented through the knowledge from his extensive travels.
Although Herodotus' terrific work does,
in fact, comprise a few genuine inaccuracies,
he does seem to have striven
for accuracy. The whole work being a formidable try to present the ancient context
of the Greek rivalry with Persia.
-Brian Carroll
