Why is Herodotus called “The Father of History”? - Mark Robinson

He wanted to come with me on the Adrestia so I said "iite"

His stories have morals . I listened to the audio book with some of his stories just the other day and was very impressed.

Strangely, video ignores the 700 Thespiae who fought and died alongside Spartans. Likewise, Xerxes troops retreated from Greece a year after Salamis naval battle, when they were defeated , mostly because of Spartans, at Plataea.

I just found a book on the side of rode!

Account of Egypt

Herodotus would have liked this

A cause for a certain historic event cant be really known tho. It is just a speculation, based on confirmation bias. Real life is much more messed up, to assign cause effect make it easier to remember or understand, as it giving us an illusion of order.

Heck, history is literally a pseudoscience and untested. See, with natural science we can deduce causal relation with repeated experiment/ observation. History by definition cant be tested by experiment.

It would be weird, unnerving, yet very funny if literally everything Herodotus said was true.

Herodotus was a lier.

common greek W, common persian L

אני אוהב את ביטוח לאומי

אני אוהב את הסיינטולוגיה

אני אוהב את עלה ירוק

אני אוהב את בית"ר ירושלים

He was right.

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Herodotus: physical* depiction;
Ted Ed: Bearded grandpa
Cicero: Megachad

I will now apologize for any gods I may have offended.

I hate how some people use BCE now like regardless we referring to death of Christ

There's so much to learn, and many unknowns in our horizon.

Your voice is great and so is the narration style.

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This has to be my favorite history book, its a complete page turner!! I've just done a podcast episode on Herodotus, come over to our page if you fancy a listen 🎧🎙

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My cousin spoke to this guy who had a dream about this event let me tell you how it happened.

Narrator says Herodotus is from 5 BCE? I thought Herodotus is from the Mid 400s BCE and The Histories was published in 430 BCE?

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It’s actually Thucydides. Historians don’t like to claim Herodotus since he doesn’t actually use anything resembling historical analysis, and he also lied a great deal throughout his works. his works also read more like myths and philosophies than histories.

Sadly, nowadays historical events are not viewed in both sides but are molded to the advantage of the teller.

Not history more like journalism or simply research. Perhaps father of scholarship. History had been documented outside of greek world for thousands of years before him that doesnt involve religious fairy tales

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Australians: we don't do that here.

TED-Ed your videos are so good ! its so nice i watch i ton of them

I think, to avoiding inaccuracies, I have to study other sciences like paleontology while I'm studying history. Understanding the true past is understanding the whole word.

Herodotus wasn't perfect but nonetheless he paved the way to improve how we write history

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Actually marmot and ant in persian dont sound that much alike i mean in persian marmot is pronounce “marmut” and ant is pronounce “murche” and im seying this cuz i speck persian

I knew him from the novel "The English Patient" written by Michael Ondaatje.

Herodotus is also the father of historical exaggerations lol

So most of Greece or Roman meth have some true in it 😂😂😂

Father of European history that is, you westerners have to stop viewing world from your point, there is an whole another continent in the earth.

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Okay, a Marmut that accidentally digging gold sound like a good myth

I feel like Greece should be more a part of the Middle East rather than Europe.

Herodotus was not the first historian or even Greek historian - that title goes to Hecataeus of Miletus (550 BCE - 476 BCE). He was also a geographer and improved on the map of Anaximander (610 BCE - 546 BCE) who also lived in Miletus, the first writer to mention the Greco-Persian Wars and the first writer to mention the Celtic and Illyrian peoples. He did trust Homer (8th century BCE) as a genuine historical source though.

and sometimes the father of lies

New Archaeological Find in Egypt at a Shipwreck once again proves Herodotus RIGHT 🙌🏻

Ready great video!

My fathers side of my family is from Bodrum, Turkey, which is modern day Halicarnassus or Halikarnas in Turkish. I was raised in New Zealand, which is a very new country and has very limited history. It makes me brim with pride knowing that my ancestors have a rich and long spanning history that I am able to learn about today because of great men like Herodotus.