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What did herodotus describe in his history of the Persian war?
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The background to Greek-Persian relationships, their deterioration, the Persian attempts at negotiation, its partial failure, and the failed Persian invasion to impose peace on the ever-warring Greek city-states.
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∙ 10y agoIn his own words:
' ... the astonishing achievements both of our own and of other peoples; and more particularly, to show how they came into conflict.'
He began with Lydia, Egypt, Persia, Persia and Lydia, and having set the background, on to the struggle between the Greek cities of Asia Minor leading to the Persian Wars from 499 BCE, and takes it through the Persian invasions of mainland Greece 490-479 BCE.
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Herodotus is considered to be the father of-?
Herodotus is considered to be the father of history. Herodotus was the first to record a historical event and that was the Persian War.
What Greek wrote the history of the Persian War?
Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
Greek author of History of the Persian Wars?
The Greek who wrote about the Persian was was Herodotus in 'The Histories'. Also Thoukydides wrote about this war.
Who wrote of the Persian War?
Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
Who is another historian and author of history of the Persian war?
primary - Herodotus low grade - Cstesias, Diodorus Siculus
Did herodotus write the histories of the Persian war?
Yes.
Who recorded the Persian War in ancient Greece?
Herodotus
Who wrote about the Persian war and considered the father of history?
Father of History is a title sometimes given to Herodotos of Halicarnassos, who lectured and wrote during the second half of the 5th Century BCE, forty years after the Persian War. He included an account of the Persian invasion in his history.
Who was Herodotus and what did he do?
'The History of the Peloponnesian War'
Who wrote the book about the Persian war?
Herodotus, who lived in Athens for a long time, developed the accurate reporting of events. His book on the Persian Wars is considered the first work of history.
Who wrote the book the History of the Persian Wars?
The most comprehensive one is contained in HerodotusThe Histories.Secondary sources are Diodorus Siculus and Certius fragments. Both are unreliable.
What was noted in the Persian war?
The events leading up to it and the war itself, by the Greek historian Herodotus.
