WORLD CIVILIZATION

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 is considered the father of history because he was the first person to record events as accurately and faithfully as possible. Previously, people around the world only understood the past through myths and legends, rather than as events happened.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Herodotus is considered as the ‘Father of History’, a title first conferred on him by the first-century BC Roman orator Cicero.