Herodotus

Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484–425 BC), a contemporary of Socrates. He is widely referred to as “The Father of History”. The Histories (this book is so call as The Histories of Herodotus) 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. Some of his stories were fanciful and others inaccurate; yet he states that he was reporting only what was told to him and was often correct in his information. Despite Herodotus’ historical significance, little is known of his personal history.