Bugün öğrendim ki: “Tarihin Babası” olarak da bilinen Herodot, tarihçi Thucydides tarafından eğlence amaçlı hikayeler uydurmakla suçlanmıştır. Bugün, modern Tarihçiler ve Arkeologlar, “Tarihler” de yazdıklarının çoğunun gerçek olduğunu doğruladılar.
5th century BC Greek historian and author of The Histories **Herodotus** ( [_hirr- OD-ə-təs_](/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key "Help:Pronunciation respelling key"); [Ancient Greek](/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language "Ancient Greek language"): Ἡρόδοτος, [romanized](/wiki/Romanization_of_Ancient_Greek "Romanization of Ancient Greek"): _Hēródotos_ , [Attic Greek](/wiki/Attic_Greek "Attic Greek") pronunciation: [[hɛːródotos]( wiki/Help:IPA/Greek "Help:IPA/Greek"); c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was an [ancient Greek](/wiki/Classical_Greece "Classical Greece") [writer](/wiki/Writer " Writer"), [geographer](/wiki/Geographer "Geographer") and [historian](/wiki/Historian "Historian") born in the Greek city of [Halicarnassus](/wiki/Halicarnassus "Halicarnassus"), part of the [Persian Empire](/wiki/Achaemenid_Empire "Achaemenid Empire") (now [Bodrum](/wiki/Bodrum "Bodrum"), [Turkey](/wiki/Turkey "Turkey")). He is known for having written the _[Histories](/wiki/Histories_\(Herodotus\) "Histories \(Herodotus\)")_ —a detailed account of the [Greco-Persian Wars](/wiki/Greco- Persian_Wars "Greco-Persian Wars"). Herodotus was the first writer to do systematic investigation of historical events. He is referred to as "[The Father of History](/wiki/List_of_people_considered_father_or_mother_of_a_scientific_field