# Herodotus

- id: herodotus
- name in original script: Ἡρόδοτος
- dates: c. 484 BCE–425 BCE
- roles: author

Historian of Halicarnassus, the inquiry made prose. The West read him in Latin for half a century before printing him in Greek.

## Works in the atlas

- The Histories (histories-herodotus)

## Sources

- N. G. Wilson (1992). From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance.