Herodotus was born at Halicarnassus, 484 BC, and died at Thurium in Italy, about the year 425. As in the case of Plutarch, our knowledge of his personal history is very meagre, aside from the little we glean from his own writings. His parents, Lyxes and Rhoeo, appear to have been of high rank and consideration in Halicarnassus, and possessed of ample means; and his acquaintance both at home and…