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Historiador y geógrafo griego (c.484–c.425 a. C.)
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Join the roomHerodotus fue un historiador y geógrafo griego de la ciudad griega de Halicarnassus, bajo control persa en el siglo V a. C., y un ciudadano posterior de Thurii en la moderna Calabria, Italy. Escribió the Histories, un relato detallado de the Greco-Persian Wars, entre otros temas como el ascenso de the Achaemenid dynasty of Cyrus. Ha sido descrito como "The Father of History", un título conferido por el antiguo orador romano Cicero.
“Ἡροδότου Ἁλικαρνησσέος ἱστορίης ἀπόδεξις ἥδε, ὡς μήτε τὰ γενόμενα ἐξ ἀνθρώπων τῷ χρόνῳ ἐξίτηλα γένηται, μήτε ἔργα μεγάλα τε καὶ θωμαστά, τὰ μὲν Ἕλλησι τὰ δὲ βαρβάροισι ἀποδεχθέντα, ἀκλεᾶ γένηται, τά τε ἄλλα καὶ δι᾽ ἣν αἰτίην ἐπολέμησαν ἀλλήλοισι.”
“From great wrongdoing there are great punishments from the gods.”
“Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy (Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably.”
“When life is so burdensome death has become a sought after refuge.”
“Although he had plenty of troops he did not have many men.”
“This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.”
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