In a collection where a Muse often names each of nine books, he told of the whipping of the Hellespont and the ships built at Themistocles' request.
This man described an experiment where the word "bekos," meaning "bread," was uttered by two children raised without natural language. Michel Peissel researched marmots in relation to a passage in this man's writings where he describes fox-sized ants that dig for gold dust. He also told of a king being burnt on a pyre who remembers hearing that no man can be called truly happy until after his death; that king sent his troops across the Halys river only to lose his capital of Sardis. In a collection where a Muse often names each of nine books, he told of the whipping of the Hellespont and the ships built at Themistocles' request. For 10 points, name this Greek whose fanciful account of the Persian Wars included Leonidas's last stand with three hundred Spartans and earned him the appellation "father of history."
This man described an experiment where the word "bekos," meaning "bread," was uttered by two children raised without natural language.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus