WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Herodotus was the first writer to perform systematic investigation of historical events. He is referred to as “The Father of History", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero.

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 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-4: -’The Histories’ 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.”)