Why is Herodotus called the Father of History?

Answer 1

NovaNET answer: was the first to write a rational history

Answer 2

E.Herodotus was a Greek accredited as the first historian to collect and arrange his material in a historiographic narrative. The Histories Inquiry was his first and only work that was recorded.

Answer 3

The ancient Greek thinker and writer Herodotus is considered to be the father (or, founder) of history because of the nature of what he wrote. His long and serious serit of books known as the "Histories" was written in such a way (comprehensively, systematically, with various perspectives explicitly identified and given voice) as to stand apart from all previous works and to establish a pattern for all further "historical" works to come.

Answer 4

(was the first to write a rational history)

Answer 5

Because he was the first historian who wrote records of happenings such as in the Persian Wars and the Battle of Thermopylae (300)