Herodotus

484 BC – 425 BC

Built the first surviving large-scale inquiry into peoples, causes, and war, helping establish history as an explanatory prose discipline.

• c. 484–c. 425 BCE

  Built the first surviving large-scale inquiry into peoples, causes, and war, helping establish history as an explanatory prose discipline

  Built the first surviving large-scale inquiry into peoples, causes, and war, helping establish history as an explanatory prose discipline.