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HERODOTUS

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Overview

HERODOTUS (noun)
  The noun HERODOTUS has 1 sense:

1. the ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC)play

  Familiarity information: HERODOTUS used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


HERODOTUS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The ancient Greek known as the father of history; his accounts of the wars between the Greeks and Persians are the first known examples of historical writing (485-425 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

historian; historiographer (a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it)


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