``The father of history,`` as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics.
He gives us much more than military history, though, providing the fullest portrait of the classical world of the 5.
Compelled by his desire to ``prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time,`` Herotodus recounts the incidents preceding and following the Persian Wars. ``The father of history,`` as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormous scope, and considerable charm, Herodotus has always been beloved by readers well-versed in the classics