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en-wikipedia-org-6217		Herodotus - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	10364	1410	71	Modern scholars generally turn to Herodotus's own writing for reliable information about his life,[25] supplemented with ancient yet much later sources, such as the Byzantine Suda, an 11th-century encyclopedia which possibly took its information from traditional accounts. John Marincola writes in his introduction to the Penguin edition of The Histories that there are certain identifiable pieces in the early books of Herodotus's work which could be labeled as "performance pieces." These portions of the research seem independent and "almost detachable," so that they might have been set aside by the author for the purposes of an oral performance. Despite the controversy,[63] Herodotus has long served and still serves as the primary, often only, source for events in the Greek world, Persian Empire, and the broader region in the two centuries leading up to his own days.[16][64] So even if the Histories were criticized in some regards since antiquity, modern historians and philosophers generally take a more positive view as to their source and epistemologic value.[65] Herodotus is variously considered "father of comparative anthropology,"[16] "the father of ethnography,"[64] and "more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history."[65] Herodotus and Greek History.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6217.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6217.txt