Herodotus
Herodotus ( c. 480 – c. 425 BC ),a Greek historian, often referred to as the ‘father of history’ since he was the first to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy as far as he was able, and arrange them agreeably. His work, the first masterpiece of Greek prose, takes as its main theme the struggle between Asia and Europe which culminated in the Persian invasions of Greece. His ‘fabulosities’, as Sir T. Browne called them, provided material for miscel-lanists like Painter ( 1566 , 1567 ) and Thomas Milles ( 1613 , 1619 ) and later for Landor in some early works, for Beddoes in Death's Jest-Book and for M. Arnold 's ‘Mycerinus’ ( 1849 ).
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