INDIAN HISTORY

HISTORY

MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Herodotus has been called the father of
A
Arts
B
History
C
Geography
D
Metallurgy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Herodotus has been called the “father of history.” An engaging narrator with a deep interest in the customs of the people he described, he remains the leading source of original historical information not only for Greece between 550 and 479 BCE but also for much of western Asia and Egypt at that time.

Detailed explanation-2: -Detailed Solution Herodotus is considered as the ‘Father of History’, a title first conferred on him by the first-century BC Roman orator Cicero.

Detailed explanation-3: -Before Herodotus, the Greeks had no word for history in the sense of writing a narration of past events in prose. Therefore, the Roman writer Cicero was correct when he called Herodotus the “Father of History.” Herodotus may have been the first Western historian, but Thucydides was the first modern one.

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