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Herodotus (c. 484-425 B.C.), as the first historian proper, is called the father of history. He was born in the essentially Dorian (Greek) colony of Halicarnassus on the southwest coast of Asia Minor (then a part of the Persian Empire), during the Persian Wars, shortly before the expedition against Greece led by the Persian King Xerxes.
Herodotus - the father of history. '(Herodotus) The man that invented history'. The Roman writer Marcus Tullius Cicero 106 B.C. to 43 B.C. Herodotus of Halicarnassus was an ancient historian who lived in the 5th century BC. He is famous for his writings, called 'The Histories of Herodotus published between 430 BC and 424 BC, on the conflict between Greece and Persia, as well as the descriptions he wrote of different places and people he met on his travels.