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Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus is believed to have been born in 484 BCE, though the precise date of his birth remains uncertain. He was born in Halicarnassus, a Greek city located in southwest Asia Minor that was under Persian rule at the time. Known as the father of history, he authored the first great narrative account of the Greco-Persian Wars.1