Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of History' and his Histories are the first piece of Western historical writing. They are also the most entertaining.
Why did Pheidippides run the 26 miles and
Do you see your son, standing over there, in the antechamber? Well, I am going to shoot him.'
The story of the great and mad Cambyses, King of Persia, told by part-historian, part-mythmaker Herodo