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Life and success of Herodotus
Title: Life and success of Herodotus
Category: History
Details: Words: 362 | Pages: 1.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Life and success of Herodotus
Herodotus was the first Greek historian, known as the "Father of History." He was born in the year 484 B.C. in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor. During his youth, he traveled Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa. During his travels, he studied the manners, customs, and religions of the people and learned as much as he could of their history. The things he learned from the trip formed the materials of his greatest work, which is …showed first 75 words of 362 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 362 total…writers of today follow. His writings, however, were somewhat biased, and came from his perspective; therefore, we also learn to write without bias. Also in his writings, we learn about the events that happened in the ancient world. I believe that this was the greatest contribution of Herodotus. His research and travels taught him a lot of things that he placed into his magnificent History, and from that, we learn much about the ancient world.
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