Hippocrates was an ancient Greek …show more content…
He was considered one of the most superb figures in the history of medicine. “Hippocrates and his colleagues believed that illness was caused by an imbalance of bodily fluids or by external factors like sun, air, and climate” (Time Life Books, Neil Kagan, What Life Was Like at the Dawn of Democracy).
Herodotus invented the field of study that we know today as ‘history’. Roman writer Cicero called him ‘The Father of History’ because of his famous work The Histories while others sometimes called him the ‘Father of Lies’, also discrediting his works. Herodotus traveled to many places in Egypt, Africa, and Asia Minor. During these excavations he wrote down his observations, and experiences that helped to equip the following generations with thorough accounts of important historical events