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HERODOTUS

(Gk. Hērodotos)

A 5th-century (ca. 484-420 b.c.e.) Greek historian. The “father of history,” he is known for his one great work, The History. Ostensibly a history of the Persian War (i.e., the wars between the Persians and the Greeks in the early 5th century), his book is actually a vast compendium of events, stories, character analyses, myths, legends, morals, ethnography, and geography. Widely traveled and insatiably curious, Herodotus wrote with remarkable openness and lack of prejudice toward other cultures and religions. Though he lacks the discriminating factual objectivity of his younger contemporary Thucydides, Herodotus writes with such superb narrative skill and brilliant classical Greek style that he becomes in many ways the model for subsequent historians in antiquity — Greek, Roman, and even Christian.

Bibliography. Herodotus, trans. A. D. Godly, rev. ed. Loeb Classical Library. 4 vols. (Cambridge, Mass., 1990); The History: Herodotus, trans. D. Grene (Chicago, 1987).

J. Christian Wilson

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HERODOTUS

Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)