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Herodotus (Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476)

Early Life

Herodotus (hih-RAHD-uh-tuhs) was born about 484 b.c.e. into a notable family of Halicarnassus, near the modern city of Bodrum, Turkey. He received the customary education available to well-born Greek men of his day. An intellectual and creative ferment was sweeping the Greek world, and Miletus, a major center of this enlightenment, was only about 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Halicarnassus. Such philosopher-scientists as Anaximander and

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