WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Herodotus, (born 484 bce?, Halicarnassus, Asia Minor [now Bodrum, Turkey]?-died c. 430–420), Greek author of the first great narrative history produced in the ancient world, the History of the Greco-Persian Wars .

Detailed explanation-2: -So far as we know, he also wrote only one work, The Histories, a lengthy investigation of the Persian Wars (490-479 BCE), the epic struggle between the much smaller Greek city-states of the West and their foe to the East, the enormous Persian Empire.

Detailed explanation-3: -Herodotus spent his entire life working on just one project: an account of the origins and execution of the Greco-Persian Wars (499–479 B.C.) that he called “The Histories.” (It’s from Herodotus’ work that we get the modern meaning of the word “history.”)

Detailed explanation-4: -Herodotus wrote about the wars between Persia and Greece. Thucydides wrote about the civil war between Athens and Sparta. Together these ancient Greek writers became the first true historians in Western civilization. We know little about the personal life of Herodotus.