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'Great historian or great liar' Which description best fits Herodotus? A historian; one who writes or compiles a chronological record of events; a chronicler. So what makes a historian great? Surely this all depends on how the historian records history and then the individuals' view of how history should be recorded? As a form of literature or a branch science? According to Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Herodotus was the epitome of a great historian and a literary genius. So what distinguishes a liar from a story teller, an entertainer? A liar tries to pass falsehoods of as true whereas a storyteller never claims that their stories are anything other than that, a story. If Plutarch is taken in a certain way and believed, there isn't a difference between the two, when it comes to Herodotus' work. There are two perspectives of the "historian" Herodotus. He is both regarded as the father of history,...

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