![]() ![]() ![]() His family was wealthy and perhaps aristocratic, but while he was still quite young they were driven from the city by a tyrant named Lygdamis. ![]() He was born in 484 B.C., or perhaps a few years earlier, in Halicarnassus, a small Greek city on the coast of Asia Minor. ![]() Little is known of Herodotus's life beyond what can be deduced from his writings. Herodotus was heir to this tradition, and he was greatly influenced by his few predecessors, and especially by the ablest of them, Hecataeus of Miletus. However, at this early date there were as yet few clear-cut distinctions between the various disciplines, and historical writing included much that today would be regarded rather as the concern of the geographer, the anthropologist, or the economist. onward, wrote works on science and philosophy or on historical subjects. The earliest writings in prose had been the work of a group of Greek intellectuals from the Ionian cities of Asia Minor who, from about 550 B.C. In the lifetime of Herodotus the writing of history, and indeed of prose of any sort, was still something of a novelty. 425 B.C.) was the first Greek writer who succeeded in writing a large-scale historical narrative that has survived the passage of time. ![]()
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