Herodotus, Greek Historian(c. 484-c. 425)

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Just the Facts:

• Name: Herodotus
• Birth: Unknown Date, 484 BCE, Halicarnassus, Turkey
• Death: Unknown Date, 425 BCE, Thurii, Italy ("Magna Graecia")
• Language: Greek
• Who he was: Greek historian whose The Histories were the first use of the word in the modern sense (it had meant "inquiries")
• Included in lists (What's This?): GBWW (+10YP); HC; LRP; Bloom
• Included in lists (What's This?): Bloom

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