<P> Herodotus ( / hɪˈrɒdətəs / ; Ancient Greek : Ἡρόδοτος , Hêródotos , Attic Greek pronunciation : ( hɛː. ró. do. tos ) ) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire ( modern - day Bodrum , Turkey ) and lived in the fifth century BC ( c. 484 -- c. 425 BC ) , a contemporary of Thucydides , Socrates , and Euripides . He is often referred to as `` The Father of History '' , a title first conferred by Cicero ; he 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 . </P>
<P> Herodotus ( / hɪˈrɒdətəs / ; Ancient Greek : Ἡρόδοτος , Hêródotos , Attic Greek pronunciation : ( hɛː. ró. do. tos ) ) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire ( modern - day Bodrum , Turkey ) and lived in the fifth century BC ( c. 484 -- c. 425 BC ) , a contemporary of Thucydides , Socrates , and Euripides . He is often referred to as `` The Father of History '' , a title first conferred by Cicero ; he 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 . </P>
who said herodotus is the father of history
who said herodotus is the father of history
Cicero
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