ABSTRACT
Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the first Greek historian of greater significance and therefore considered the “Father of History.”1 Actually, the word “history” is derived from the Greek ἱστορία (Ionian ἱστορίη, “inquiry”), which appears at the beginning of his work in this famous manner:
What Herodotus the Halicarnassian has learnt by inquiry is here set forth: in order that so the memory of the past may not be blotted out from among men by time, and that great and marvellous deeds done by Greeks and foreigners [barbarians] and especially the reason why they warred against each other may not lack renown.2
