Herodotus
c. 484–425 BC · Ancient Greece
Greek writer from Halicarnassus, called by Cicero the father of history. His Histories set out to explain the great war between Greece and Persia, and along the way gathered the geography, customs, and marvels of the known world into the first sustained work of prose narrative.
Works
Bust of Herodotus — Roman copy of a Greek original, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme — public domain, via Wikimedia Commons