Herodotus
[hɪˈrɔdətəs ]
Definition
(noun.) the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC).
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Examples
- His son had been killed in a very tragic manner, which Herodotus relates, but which we will not describe here. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The early historians Hecat?us and Herodotus travelled widely. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was born about sixteen years later than Herodotus, and he was beginning to be heard of about the time when Pericles died. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Murders, revolts, chastisements, disasters, cunning alliances, and base betrayals, and no Herodotus to record them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The cotton-plant furnished clothing to mankind before the age of Herodotus. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But here we may not run on as Herodotus loved to do. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The History of Herodotus displays little or no dissatisfaction with Athenian political institutions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A fourth people, related to these Aryan tribes, who appear at this time in the narrative of Herodotus, are the Scythians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With this the ninth book of the _History_ of Herodotus comes to an end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have taken Herodotus as an interesting specimen of what we have called the free intelligence of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Herodotus, Appollonius, and Plutarch all speak of previous eruptions. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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