Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
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| Birth: | 484 BC |
| Death: | 425 BC |
| Nationality: | Greek |
| Profession: | Historian |
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Herodotus was born in Halicarnassus, Bodrum, Turkey. He was a Greek historian. He is widely referred to as "The Father of History"; he was the first historian known to have broken from Homeric tradition to treat historical subjects as a method of investigation—specifically, by collecting his materials systematically and critically, and then arranging them into a historiographic narrative. The Histories is the only work which he is known to have produced, a record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information.
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