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  1. Greek historian. After four years in Athens,
  2. he travelled widely in Egypt, Asia, and
  3. eastern Europe, before settling at Thurii in
  4. S Italy 443 bc. He wrote a nine-book history
  5. of the Greek-Persian struggle that culminated
  6. in the defeat of the Persian invasion
  7. attempts 490 and 480 bc. Herodotus was the
  8. first historian to apply critical evaluation
  9. to his material.
  10.