The Classical Accounts of India c7.1

c7.1

"Herodotus, the Greek historian, called the Father of History, was born between 490 and 480 B. C. at Halicarnassus, a town in Caria on the south-west coast of Asia Minor, which was then subject to the Persians. His famous book, *The History* (or *The Histories*), contains the passage quoted below. The translation is based upon that of McCrindle.¹