person
Herodotus
Greek historian of Halicarnassus (c. 484-425 BC), author of the Histories; the canonical first historian.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §1.113 on the authority of Herodotus and many others
Herodotus, the 'father of history,' source for the story of Cleobis and Bito (Histories 1.31), the Argive youths who drew their mother's chariot and were granted death as the gods' greatest gift. Cicero uses it as an authority that the gods judge early death a blessing.