Herodotus

Who is Herodotus?

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria and lived in the fifth century BC. He has been called "The Father of History", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent, and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. The Histories—his masterpiece and the only work he is known to have produced—is a record of his "inquiry", being an investigation of the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars and including a wealth of geographical and ethnographical information. Although some of his stories were fanciful, he claimed he was reporting only what had been told to him. Little is known of his personal history.

Famous Quotes:

• All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
• In soft regions are born soft men.
• Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.
• Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. -- The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service
• Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
• Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
• A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
• Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men.
• The destiny of man is in his own soul
• It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a days journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.