Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. Plutarch has an essay titled On the Malice of Herodotus, where he notes, among other ...

Widely considered one of the first serious works of history, Histories—written in the 5th century BCE by the Greek scholar Herodotus—is a highly influential account of the Greco-Persian wars, and ...

“Herodotus, the famed ancient Greek historian, lied about a pivotal battle between the Greeks and the Carthaginians, a new study finds.” —Live Science LIE: Cyrus the Great founded the Persian Empire.

“The Histories” by Herodotus, translated by Tom Holland, introduction and notes by Paul Cartledge (Penguin Classics Deluxe, 880 pages, $23, paperback) It’s not often that an ancient Greek historian ...

Herodotus is the most entertaining of historians. Indeed, he is as entertaining as anyone who has ever written, historian or not. His great work is many things – the first example of non-fiction, the ...

Herodotus is well known as the “father of history”. As the first writer to use the Greek “historie,” meaning an inquiry, when speaking of examining the events of the past, his seminal work The ...

Cicero called Herodotus the father of history, but he is not a historian's historian in the sense that Thucydides is. Thucydides, the younger man by about 15 years, produced a forthright account of ...

History, like poetry, began with war. Around 440 BC, some three centuries after Homer, singing of the wrath of Achilles, composed The Iliad, a Greek by the name of Herodotus embarked upon a project no ...