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    Early Life 

    Herodotus was born in about 485 B.C. in the Greek city of Halicarnassus, a lively commercial center on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor. He came from a wealthy and cosmopolitan Greek-Carian merchant family. (The Carians, of Minoan descent, had arrived in that part of Asia Minor before the Greeks had.)

    In the middle of the 6th century B.C., Halicarnassus became a satrapy, or province, of the Persian Empire and was ruled by the tyrant Lygdamis. Herodotus’ family opposed Lygdamis’ rule and was sent into exile on the island of Samos.

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    When he was a young man, Herodotus returned briefly to Halicarnassus to take part in an abortive anti-Persian rebellion. After that, however, the writer never returned to his home city again.

    Did you know? In 443 B.C., Herodotus joined a group of Athenians who set out to colonize a city, Thurii, in southern Italy. He died there in around 425 B.C.

    Origins of ‘The Histories’ 

    Instead of settling in one place, Herodotus spent his life traveling from one Persian territory to another. He crossed the Mediterranean to Egypt and traveled through Palestine to Syria and Babylon. He headed to Macedonia and visited all the islands of the Greek Archipelago: Rhodes, Cyprus, Delos, Paros

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    Herodotus
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    Emily Baragwanath, Mathieu de Bakker
    • LAST REVIEWED: 14 December 2009
    • LAST MODIFIED: 14 December 2009
    • DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780195389661-0018

  • Armayor, O. K. 1978. Did Herodotus ever go to the Black Sea? Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 82:45–62.

    DOI: 10.2307/311020

    A skeptical approach to Herodotus’s claims about his travels.

  • Asheri, David. 2007. General introduction. In A commentary on Herodotus Books I–IV. Edited by Oswyn Murray and Alfonso Moreno, 1–56. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.

    A brief and balanced discussion of the biographical material both inside and outside the Histories, pp. 1–7.

  • Forrest, W. G. 1984. Herodotos and Athens. Phoenix 38:1–11.

    DOI: 10.2307/1088084

    Historical analysis of Herodotus’s possible relationship with Athens.

  • Isager, Signe. 1999. The pride of Halicarnassus: Editio princeps of an inscription from Salmakis. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123:1–23.

    A Greek inscription from Roman times in which Halicarnassus claims Herodotus as her own citizen.

  • Jacoby, F. 1913. Herodotos. In Paulys Real–Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, supp. II. Edited by W. Kroll, 205–520. Stuttgart: Buchhandlung J. B. Metzler.

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    Histories (Herodotus)

    Work indifference Herodotus

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