HERODOTUS

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• 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)

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

• 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)