Herodotus
Herodotus ( c. 485- 425 B. C. ) was the oldest historian of Greece, whom Cicero called the "Father of History". He wrote the "History Of the Persian Invasion of Greece." This first historian of the world was born at Halicarnassus, in Caria, between 490 and 480 BC, traveled over Asia Minor, Egypt, and Syria as far as Babylon, and in his old age recorded with due fidelity the fruits of his observations and inquiries, the main object of his work being to relate the successive stages of the strife between the free civilisation of Greece and the despotic barbarism of Persia for the sovereignty of the world, an interest in which Alexander the Great drew sword in the century following.Wisdom & Quotes
- It is better to be envied than pitied.
- Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.
- Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
- Haste in every business brings failures.
- This is the bitterest pain among men , to have much knowledge but no power.
- Power is precarious.
- We are less convinced by what we hear than what we see.
- Not snow, no, nor rain , nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.
Xerxes