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Herodotus was a Greek historian born in Halicarnassus four years before the battle of Thermopylae.
He is believed to have been exiled in his later life because of his opposition to the tyrant Lygdamis. He
spent much time on Samos, thereafter travelling in the Persian Empire, Scythia and Egypt, observing
with fascination the local customs and beliefs. He lived some time in Athens and travelled as an
Athenian colonist to Thurli, in Italy, where he is supposed to have spent the rest of his life writing The
Persian Wars
, earning the title of Father of History from Caesar. This 9-book work is an
inquiry into the
origins of, and a description of, the Persian invasions of Greece. The first 6 books tell of the customs,
geography and history of the combatants and their neighbours; the last three treat the war itself.
97- The passage suggests that Herodotus …. .
A) made a fortune from the sale of his books
B) is one of the earliest historical writers
C) did not actually visit the places he wrote about
D) played a major role in the history of the Persian Empire
E) could speak Persian, Arabic and Scythian
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