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Though little is recognized about Herodotus’ life or death, his influence in each his own time and the future is undeniable. Herodotus enjoyed limited fame in his own lifetime– possibly enough to support himself in his later years on the equivalent of the lecture circuit. Thankfully Herodotus was lengthy dead before the accurate attacks on his character and work had been penned, even though the first and perhaps deepest reduce was created by Thucydides, a neophyte historian only some ten years his junior. In the years, decades, and centuries that followed in the aftermath of the History, Herodotus was noticed...