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Herodotus

  • c.490/ 480- 429/5 BC
  • Was from Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum, Turkey)
  • Tells the history of the Persian Wars in which the Hellenic cities, in a period of brief co-operation, repelled the Persian invasion of Hellas
  • He wrote his History more than a generation after the events that he was investigating took place
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