Associations to the word «Herodotus»

Wiktionary

HERODOTUS, proper noun. An ancient historian who lived from 484 to 425 BC.

Dictionary definition

HERODOTUS, noun. The ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope