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- Herodotus of Halicarnassus was a story teller in ancient Greece. He wrote stories in Athens nearly 2500 years ago, at the beginning of the classical period when Greece was becoming the center of world learning. He invented the discipline we now call history as he wrote about the worlds in which he had travelled for seventeen years. He wrote first hand descriptions of these countries and their inhabitants, their customs and traditions. And he related the stories he had heard about places and people beyond the frontiers of the countries he visited. Some say he was a teller of fairy tales rather than an historian. He would recite a good story even if he then admitted it was unlikely to be true. But he was loved by his audiences, both for his empathy with them and with the people he wrote about in whose lives he was able to immerse himself. The interesting thing about Herodotus’ history today is not that his hypotheses were always correct. In fact they were often wrong. But his awareness of rumours or theories about people and places and events beyond the horizons of the known world created new possibilities for discovery; he set out new hypotheses to be either proven or disproved by rigorous inquiry. He analyzed this information in a systematic way, often offered an informed opinion or explanation and opened these subjects to a wider audience, creating possibilities that had not previously existed in the minds of his readers and expanding the horizons of the known world. And this process remains as interesting today as it was two and one half millennia ago.
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