Greek traveller and writer of the 5th century BCE, one of the greatest sources of Greek history.

Herodotus of Harlicanassus, the "Father of History"; fourth century Greek historian whose work, The Histories, is the main source for the Medes and Pteria.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus (in Greek, , HÄ“rodotos Halikarnāsseus) was a Dorian Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC–ca.425 BC) and is regarded as the "father of history". He is almost exclusively known for writing The Histories, a collection of 'inquiries' (or '', a word which passed into Latin and took on its modern connotation of 'history') about the places and peoples he encountered during his wide-ranging travels around the Mediterranean. The theme for this work was the conflict between the ancient Greeks and the Persians or 'Medes'.