Herodotus - Father of History

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.

Herodotus’ work - The writing of Herodotus's great work, the Histories (the name is simply a transliteration of a Greek word that means primarily "inquiries" or "research"). His fame was so great that many different cities (Athens and Thurii among them) claimed to be the site of his funeral and grave and monuments were erected in his honor. The lasting significance of his work continues to be appreciated by millions of people today and he is considered a primary source for reliable information on the ancient world he observed and wrote about.

-Brian Carroll