Born in Asia Minor, probably in 484 B.C.; died in Italy,
probably in 424; commonly called the "Father of History";
assisted in the expulsion of the tyrant Lygdamis from
Halicarnassus; traveled in Persia, Egypt, and Greece; lived
afterward in Samos and Athens, settling in Thurii, Italy,
about 444 B.C.; his history of the Persian invasion of
Greece, extending to 479 B.C., was first printed in Greek by
Aldus Manutius in 1502, but a Latin version had appeared in
1474.[1]
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