Herodotus

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ancient Greek historian chronicler prose author writer

Herodotus was an ancient Greek historian, often called the "Father of History," known for writing the seminal work "Histories" that chronicles the Greco-Persian Wars and various cultures of the ancient world.

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Ἡρόδοτος	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek historian ⓘ chronicler ⓘ prose author ⓘ writer ⓘ
authorOf	Histories ⓘ
birthDate	circa 484 BC ⓘ
birthPlace	Achaemenid Empire ⓘ Asia Minor ⓘ Caria ⓘ Halicarnassus ⓘ
contemporaryOf	Pericles ⓘ Sophocles ⓘ Thucydides ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Classical Greece ⓘ
deathDate	circa 425 BC ⓘ
deathPlace	Magna Graecia ⓘ Thurii ⓘ
describedAs	Father of History by Cicero ⓘ
era	Classical Greece ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Greeks ⓘ surface form: Greek
fieldOfWork	ethnography ⓘ geography ⓘ history ⓘ
floruit	5th century BC ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
genre	historiography ⓘ travel literature ⓘ
honorificTitle	Father of History ⓘ
influenced	Roman historians ⓘ Thucydides ⓘ later Greek historians ⓘ modern historiography ⓘ
knownFor	critical evaluation of sources ⓘ systematic collection of historical materials ⓘ use of inquiry (historíai) as method ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	Ancient Greek ⓘ
name	Herodotus self-link ⓘ
nativeName	Herodotus self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Ἡρόδοτος
notableWork	Histories ⓘ
occupation	author ⓘ geographer ⓘ historian ⓘ
religion	ancient Greek religion ⓘ
workSubject	Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ surface form: Egypt Greco-Persian Wars ⓘ Achaemenid Empire ⓘ surface form: Persian Empire Scythia ⓘ surface form: Scythians various cultures of the ancient world ⓘ
writingStyle	ethnographic description ⓘ narrative history ⓘ

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Bubastis → describedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Hawara pyramid complex → describedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Thales of Miletus → describedBySource → Herodotus ⓘ

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World → documentedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Age of Pericles → hasAssociatedPerson → Herodotus ⓘ

Classical period → hasMajorFigure → Herodotus ⓘ

Classical Greece → hasNotableHistorian → Herodotus ⓘ

Greek Antiquity → hasNotableHistorian → Herodotus ⓘ

Battle of Marathon → historicalSource → Herodotus ⓘ

Battle of Plataea → historicalSource → Herodotus ⓘ

Median Empire → historicalSource → Herodotus ⓘ

History of the Peloponnesian War → influencedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Leonidas at Thermopylae → inspiredBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Royal Road → knownFromSource → Herodotus ⓘ

Boeotians → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Canopus → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Cape Sounion → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Clazomenae → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Colchis → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Etemenanki ziggurat → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

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Himera → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Illyrians → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Lampsacus → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Larisa (ancient city) → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Megara → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Phocis → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Sybaris → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Troezen → mentionedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

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Pericles → patronOf → Herodotus ⓘ

Battle of Salamis → primaryAncientSource → Herodotus ⓘ

Battle of Mycale → recordedBy → Herodotus ⓘ

Artaxerxes I of Persia → source → Herodotus ⓘ

Polycrates of Samos → source → Herodotus ⓘ

Themistocles → source → Herodotus ⓘ

Xanthippus → source → Herodotus ⓘ

Dorians → sourceMention → Herodotus ⓘ

Pythia → sourceMention → Herodotus ⓘ