HERODOTUS (ca 484-430 BC) greek historian. He was born in Halicarnassus; the abandoned and lived in Athens making numerous trips to the Black Sea and Egypt; collecting geographic data; and ethnic recast in 9 books of the 'Stories'. Portrait by: 'Gallery of the ancient Greeks and Romans with a short description of their lives' by Georg Wilhelm Zapf; dedicated to the Altitude Serene Margrave Karl Friedrich of Baden; translation from German by Thomas de Bassus (1742-1815) by Giuseppe Ambrosioni; Poschiavo 1784