Inscribed Bust of Herodotos found in ancient Athribis Roman 2nd century CE marble copy of 4th century BCE Greek bronze.

Title pages of a translation into Italian, printed in Venice, and first published in 1533

Herodotus (/hɪˈrɒdəəs/ HIRR-od-Ə-təs; Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος Hēródotos, Attic Greek pronunciation: [hɛːródotos]; c. 484 – c. 425 BC) was an Ancient Greek historian. He was born in Halicarnassus, a town in south-west Asia Minor (now Bodrum, Turkey)

Herodotus was called the "Father of History" by Cicero. He wrote about the ancient empires of Babylon, Egypt, and Persia, and about the Ancient Greeks.