SSC MTS EXAM

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: -Herodotus was called the Father of History because he wrote the first narrative history in the Western World. His work, The Histories, is a history of the Greco-Persian Wars.

Detailed explanation-3: -Herodotus was called the Father of History because he was the first historian to properly record the events that took place during that time. Herodotus, a Greek historian of antiquity, unfortunately, lacks a record of his own life. He was both a geographer and a historian.

Detailed explanation-4: -Herodotus and Thucydides invented history, or at least the writing of it, in the Western world. 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.”