Herodotus Ἡρόδοτος
historian · Halicarnassus, ancient Greece · 484?–425? BC
A man who went as far as Egypt and the Black Sea looking for the causes of the Persian Wars, and wrote down what he asked and heard. He is called the father of history.
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c. 430 BC
This is the setting out of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that what people have done may not fade with time.
Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνησσέος ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις ἥδε, ὡς μήτε τὰ γενόμενα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων τῷ χρόνῳ ἐξίτηλα γένηταιHistories, the first sentence
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