*wikipic*
(roman copy of a greek bronze bust of ‘herodotus’)
(from ‘4th century BC’)
(‘roman version’ created during ‘imperial era’ / ‘2nd century AD’)
(in ‘benha’ (ancient ‘athribis’) in ‘lower egypt’)
(currently @ “metropolitan museum of art”)
(“department of ‘greek’ and ‘roman’ art”)
(“gallery 162”
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*born in ‘halicarnassus’ in the ‘persian empire’ (modern-day (‘bodrum’ / ‘turkey’)) and lived in the ‘5th century BC (c. 484–c. ‘425 BC’), a contemporary of ‘socrates’*
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(“herodotus”)
(“duly noted”)
her ODD a tis
(/hᵻˈrɒdətəs/)
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*ancient greek* –>
hρόδοτος
hēródotos
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(attic greek pronunciation: [hɛː.ró.do.tos])
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‘greek historian’
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(he is widely referred to as “the father of history”)
(a title first conferred (unto him) via ‘cicero’)
“a hero to all of ‘us’…”
(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’ + ‘critically’, and then arranging them into a ‘historiographic narrative’)
(‘the histories’ is the only work which he is known to have produced, a record of his “inquiry” (or ἱστορία historía) on the origins of the ‘greco-persian wars’, including a wealth of ‘geographical’ + ‘ethnographical’ information)
(some of his ‘stories’ were ‘fanciful’ and others ‘inaccurate’; yet he states that he was reporting only what was told to him and was often correct in his ‘information’)
(“ok…”)
(“and that helps us how…?”)
(despite herodotus’ historical significance, little is known of his ‘personal history’)
(history of ‘herodotus’)
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥