Herodotus
c. 484-425 BCE
c. 484-425 BCE
aka: Herodotus of Halicarnassus
Greek: Ἡρόδοτος
Greek: Ἡρόδοτος
Greek author, historian, traveller..
wrote The Histories
called "The Father of History"
used the Greek word istori, which meant "inquires"
to define his writings, which became the English
word "history"
wrote about the Greco-Persian Wars of 490-479
BCE, based on other's oral accounts, and also
other events of ancient times.
many detractors point to large inaccuracies in his
writings, focusing on his method of using second
and third hand accounts, and of modifying events
to suit his needs.
wrote The Histories
called "The Father of History"
used the Greek word istori, which meant "inquires"
to define his writings, which became the English
word "history"
wrote about the Greco-Persian Wars of 490-479
BCE, based on other's oral accounts, and also
other events of ancient times.
many detractors point to large inaccuracies in his
writings, focusing on his method of using second
and third hand accounts, and of modifying events
to suit his needs.
| I have heard about Herodotus, a Greek mathematician, who was the first to discover the law of averages; and because he was the first man in history to discover it, he was so full of it that he was looking at everything through the law of averages. One day he had gone for a picnic with his three or four children and his wife, and they had to cross a small stream... --Osho The Path of the Mystic, ch. 29 |
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