автор: G. C. Macaulay

Herodotus (c. 484–c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He is often referred to as «The Father of History», a title first conferred by Cicero. Herodotus 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 only work which he is known to have produced is «The Histories», a record of his «inquiry» on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars.