Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Herodotus [Ἡρόδοτος] was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the modern-day Turkey in the fifth century BC (c. 484–c. 425 BC). As a contemporary with Socrates, Euripedes and Aeschylus, he lived during what is known as the Golden Age of Greece. He is often referred to as “The Father of History”, because he broke from Homeric tradition of mythologising events and treated his historical subjects […]