A native of Halicarnassus, he spent much of his life traveling widely, providing much of the material for his masterpiece, a nine-volume historical work often criticized for its acceptance of eyewitness accounts but nonetheless revolutionary for its scope.
In his most famous work this man used a flashback technique known as "ring-composition" to maintain the forward flow of the narrative. Involved in an uprising against the tyrant Lygdamis early in his life, he died as part of an Athenian colony sent to Thurii. A native of Halicarnassus, he spent much of his life traveling widely, providing much of the material for his masterpiece, a nine-volume historical work often criticized for its acceptance of eyewitness accounts but nonetheless revolutionary for its scope. FTP, who is this man known as the "Father of History" for detailing the Greek-Persian Wars in his "Histories"?
In his most famous work this man used a flashback technique known as "ring-composition" to maintain the forward flow of the narrative.
Herodotus