Plutarch   criticized   this   author   of   creating "calumnious   fictions"   in   his   works   in   an   essay   "On   the    (+)    Malice   of   [this   man]".   
According   to   the   Byzantine    Sudas ,   this   man   fled   Samos   to   escape   the   persecution   of Lygdamis,   but   later   returned   to   overthrow   him.   Plutarch   criticized   this   author   of   creating "calumnious   fictions"   in   his   works   in   an   essay   "On   the    (+)    Malice   of   [this   man]".   Da   Vinci   may have   designed   a   version   of   machine   described   by   this   man   that   assisted   in   building   the   Pyramids. This   historiographer   gave   a   well   known   account   of   Arion,   whose   Corinthian   crew   forced   him   to jump   into   the   sea,   only   to   be   saved   by   a    (*)   dolphin.   One   of   his   works,   divided   into   nine   sections   and named   for   the   Muses,   begins   with   an   account   of   the   Trojan   War   and   gives   an   account   of   the   Battle   of Mycale,   destroying   most   of   the   Persian   fleet.   For   10   points,   name   this   "father   of   history"   who   gave accounts   of   the   Greco-Persian   war   in   the    The   Histories .
According   to   the   Byzantine    Sudas ,   this   man   fled   Samos   to   escape   the   persecution   of Lygdamis,   but   later   returned   to   overthrow   him.   
Herodotus    of   Halicarnassus