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Noun: Herodotus  hi'ró-du-tus
  1. 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)

Type of: historian, historiographer

Encyclopedia: Herodotus

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