The Father of History

Cast your mind back if you will to your time in Ancient Greece. What’s that? You can’t, because you didn’t exist? Well it’s a lucky thing then that someone was alive to tell you what life was like and what happened, in other words to recount to you the history. This man was Herodotus, an Ancient Greek writer from the 5th Century BCE, and his magnum opus was ‘The Histories’. Before Herodotus, the past was recorded as a list of events with little to…