Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in the 5th century BC in what is now modern-day Bodrum in Turkey (then part of the vast Persian Empire).
The Histories is the only work for which he is known to have produced a record.
Herodotus broke from the then tradition to treat history as one of investigation of facts and evidence to present a better whole.
A contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, and Euripides he is often called \'The Father of History\', initially by no less than Cicero.
Herodotus was a Greek historian who was born in the 5th century BC in what is now modern-day Bodrum in Turkey (then part of the vast Persian Empire)