Herodotus deserves his title, Father of History. His reputation suffered in the early modern period and in the eighteenth century, when he was compared by serious thinkers like David Hume with Thucydides, the father of “real” history, and judged inferior. The eventual rehabilitation of Herodotus as a serious thinker in the late nineteenth century was related to the rise of anthropology in tandem with imperial ethnography. In the twentieth century, the combined efforts of Arnaldo Momigliano and Isaiah Berlin illustrated the incomparable role played by Herodotus in the philosophy as well as the
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