Associations to the word «Herodotus»

Wiktionary

HERODOTUS, proper noun. An ancient historian who lived from 484 to 425 BC.

Dictionary definition

HERODOTUS, noun. The ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC).

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca