Volume 8, Issue 3: Hisoria The Possession for All Time With good
reason, Herodotus of Halicarnassus has been called the Marco
Polo of antiquity. He spent the better part of his life, some
2,500 years ago, traveling away from his home, a small city on
the south-Aegean coast of Asia Minor. He knew the Aegean region
well and probably visited Athensthen in its -- Golden Age --
more than once. He went as far west as Italy; southward, he
sailed the Nile clear to Assuan. His eastward travels took him
to Babylon and Susa. To the north he sailed the Black Sea and up
the rivers that flow into it, and he travelled through Thrace
and Macedonia. He learned the customs and the past of the people
he met, and he recorded what he learned. Ancient scribes and
librarians copied his writings on scrolls of papyrus. When they
were rolled, visible on the outside of the papyrus -- serving
the purpose of titles on our modern day book covers -- was the
following inscription: HRODOTOU ALIKARNHSSEOS ISTORIHS. These
are the first three w