Hamel, Debra

Herodotus was born in roughly 484 B.C. in the city of Halicarnassus in what is now Turkey. Often called the Father of History, Herodotus is the author of the History of the Persian Wars. You can follow him on Twitter at @iHerodotus. Debra Hamel is the author of Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History and Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. Her most recent book, The Battle of Arginusae: Victory at Sea and Its Tragic Aftermath in the Final Years of the Peloponnesian War, will be publi...