Why is Herodotus considered the father of history?

Answer 1

He is important because he set the pace for history to be written with logic and facts; (although some things he wrote people can agree are far fetched) that's why hes called the father of history.

Herodotus is considered the father OS history because his history of the Persian War was the first narrative in the form that later came out be considered written history.

More importantly, Herodutus was one of the first to disregard that supernatural in his writings. You get this more when you get to Thucydides, but Herodutus, in general, tends to leave out things that are credited to the gods. Or he tries to find a logical explanation for them.

Answer 2

Herodotus is considered the father of history because his history of the Persian War was the first narrative in the form that later came out be considered written history.

More importantly, Herodutus was one of the first to disregard the supernatural in his writings. You get this more when you get to Thucydides, but Herodutus, in general, tends to leave out things that are credited to the gods. Or he tries to find a logical explanation for them.

Although Herodotus may not have been the first to record history, his accomplishment was very admired by Greek authorities in Athens where he was provided temporary residence. The Athenians called him the "Father of History." The word for history at the time, was "inquiries." The book he wrote is called "The Researches or The Inquiries." Herodotus appears to have drawn on an Ionian tradition of storytelling, collecting and interpreting the oral histories he chanced upon in his travels. These oral histories often contained folktale motifs and demonstrated a moral, yet they also contained substantial facts relating to geography, anthropology and history, all compiled by Herodotus in an entertaining style and format. Sometime after his death, the Alexandrians properly formatted the book into 9 books and called it the "9 Muses."

He was the first person to collect 'historical' material and test the accuracy of the material. As a result of his inquiries a new word passed into Latin (historia) and this became 'History' in the English language

Answer 3

Ancient Greece has produced many "fathers" including fathers of science, mathematics, philosophy and medicine. Herodotus was a historian who lived between 485 and 425 BC. He was a prolific writer most famous for his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians known as the Peloponnesian Wars. He also covered other major events in the Mediterranean world. As he was a main source of historical events, he became known later on as the "father of history". His writings have also been what other historians call fables and superstitions mixed in with verifiable events. With all that said, no one has sought to take his informal title away from him. As an aside, the ancient world events surrounding Greece, Rome, Egypt and Persia focus on the Greek writers. Thus in the later "Europe" and beyond, so-called "western thinking" came from Greece. Other areas of the world, such as East Asia, are not especially impressed with the ancient Mediterranean world.

Answer 4

He presented a series of paid lectures in Athens and converted it into a book which is the first historical coverage we have of a significant era of history.