Herodotus Short Biography - The Father of History|SOHAIL KHAN

 Herodotus, he is the father of history he was born in Hala cornices Asia Minor Persian Empire on 484 before Christ his father's name was Lexus and mother's name was dry, Oh his family was an

influential one Herodotus probably began traveling as a young man he went to Egypt sometime after 454 before Christ

or possibly earlier according to his eyewitness accounts he might have been associated with Athenians he is believed to have traveled next to tire and then down the Euphrates to Babylon during this time he became involved in local politics which made him unpopular in Halicarnassus so he migrated to Periclean Athens a city known for its democratic institutions in 447 before Christ there he became acquainted with leading citizens such as the alchemy in its clan he soon became a

respective citizen in the region and was granted a financial reward by the Athenian assembly in recognition of his work he migrated to thorium as part of an Athenian sponsored colony in 443

before Christ or shortly afterward he visited many places over his lifetime in addition to Egypt he also visited Libya Syria Babylonia sue said in Elam Lydia and fridge he also traveled up the Hellespont to Byzantium and went to Thrace and Macedonia, in addition, he journeyed along the northern shores of the Black Sea as far as the Don River and some way inland he was a prolific writer best known for the histories his narrative on the Greco-Persian Wars the work is believed to have taken several years of his later life though it is not known when where or in what order it was

written it is probable that he began working on it much earlier in life

though it was completed only during his

last years his seminal work covers the wars between Greece and Persia and their preliminaries The Histories is divided into nine books each describing a different aspect of the wars the work also contains considerable material on the description of geography social structure and history of the Persian Empire even though he is acclaimed as an

important Greek historian the accuracy of his works has been controversial since his era several prominent personalities like Cicero Aristotle Josephus Norris of Samos and polluters have commented on this controversy however modern historians and philosophers generally take a more positive view he died in thorry Calabria or Pella Macedon on 425 before Christ aged approximately 60 in peace sons bury their fathers in war father' bury their sons said, Herodotus