Author Introduction: Herodotus

Greetings dearest readers, it is I, your humble historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus, the father of history, father of lies. I was born sometime around 484 BCE and do appeared to have died in 425 BCE, a tragic loss to the world if I do say so myself. What I am best known for is the creation of The Histories, a document considered to be the earliest work of historical nature, as can be seen in its name. The Histories is an account of the history of many Greek city states as well as the Persian Empire, and ultimately the conflict between the two. Of course I wasn't actually there for any of that, war is simply no place for a scholar, but I did collect the firsthand accounts of many who were, and though modern historians may say that many are nothing more than fantasy I know them to be absolutely true. I also collected the folk tales from many areas of Greece, so that readers of my work might have an idea of the history of the Greek people. Much like the many tales that I collected my works were known to have a sort of folktale-ish style to them, often containing morals and fantastical elements. Now, I believe the only proper way to end off this introduction is to list several of the best quotes by yours truly.


"In peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons."
"From great wrongdoings there are great punishments from the gods"
"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it."
"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."
"This is the showing-forth of the inquiry of Herodotus of Halicarnassus, so that neither what has come to be from man in time might become faded, nor that great and wondrous deeds, those shown forth by Greeks and those by barbarians, might be without their glory"

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