Branded the "Father of Lies," his more famous title was conferred upon him by Cicero.
This man spread a story about marmots digging up gold dust, and much of the information about him comes from the Suda. He chronicled the Ionian revolt in one of his works, and in Books I through IV of that work he outlines the creation of the Persian empire. Branded the "Father of Lies," his more famous title was conferred upon him by Cicero. Never claiming truth to his statements, for 10 points, identify this author of The Histories, a work about the Persian invasion of Greece, who was called the "Father of History."
This man spread a story about marmots digging up gold dust, and much of the information about him comes from the Suda.
{Herodotus} of Halicarnassus