Herodotus

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Name (Hebrew)
הרודוטוס
Name (Latin)
Herodotus
Name (Arabic)
هيرودوتس
Name (Cyrilic)
Геродот
Other forms of name
Herodot
Gerodot
Hērodotos
Erodoto
Herodote D'halicarnasse
Herodot von Halikarnass
Herodote
Erodoto D'alicarnasso
הירודוטוס
הירודוט, מן הליקרנוס
هرودوتس
هرودوت
هيرودوت
Date of birth
-0484~
Date of death
-0423
Place of death
Thurioi
Place of residence/headquarters
Halicarnassus (Extinct city)
Samos (Greece)
Occupation
Historians
Associated Language
grc
Gender
male
Language
Greek
Biographical or Historical Data
Herodotus (approximately 485-424 B.C.) was a Greek historian.
מקום לידה: האליקארנאסו'ס [ אסיה הקטנה]
תאריך לידה: 484 בערך לפני הספירה הנהוגה
מקום פטירה: Thurioi
מקום פטירה: Thurioi [ מושבה יוונית באיטליה הדרומית] או אתונה
תאריך פטירה: 425 בערך לפני הספירה הנהוגה.
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 100225976
Wikidata: Q26825
Library of congress: n 79086888
Sources of Information
  • Record enhanced with data from Bibliography of the Hebrew Book database
  • Giraudeau, M. Les notions juridiques et sociales chez Hérodote, 1984:
  • His Historia, c1977-c1981:
  • Brill's New Pauly online, 10 July 2012
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Wikipedia description:

Herodotus (Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος, romanized: Hēródotos; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, under Persian control the 5th century BCE, (now Bodrum, Turkey) and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, and was the first writer to apply a scientific method to historical events. He has been described as "The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero, and the "Father of Lies" by others. The Histories primarily cover the lives of prominent kings and famous battles such as Marathon, Thermopylae, Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale. His work deviates from the main topics to provide a cultural, ethnographical, geographical, and historiographical background that forms an essential part of the narrative and provides readers with a wellspring of additional information. Herodotus was criticized in ancient times for his inclusion of "legends and fanciful accounts" in his work. The contemporaneous historian Thucydides accused him of making up stories for entertainment. He retorted that he reported what he could see and was told. A sizable portion of the Histories has since been confirmed by modern historians and archaeologists.

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