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Even though for crucial historians the Father of History represents the quite bottom of historical science, the truth is that there under no circumstances was a historian who was capable to pack into so handful of pages a greater mass of facts about the history and the culture of such a wide location. In spite of nearly two centuries of efforts directed at collecting new sources of facts employing all sorts of new tactics, Herodotus remains our most critical source of facts for Greek history and culture. He is about equally valuable to the scholars of Persia and Egypt. The...