Herodotus
483 BC–424 BC
Greek historian and geographer (c.484–c.425 BC)
historian
Born in Halicarnassus
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Herodotus:
- Socrates (469 BC–398 BC)
- Sophocles (495 BC–405 BC)
- Hippocrates (459 BC–369 BC)
- Euripides (480 BC–406 BC)
- Aeschylus (524 BC–455 BC)
- Democritus (460 BC–360 BC)
- Aristophanes (444 BC–384 BC)
- Thucydides (460 BC–394 BC)