Translate the paragraph into Chinese. Herodotus (希罗多德), a 5th-century BC Greek historian, called “the father of history”, is considered the first genuine historian in the Western tradition. This is because he was the first known historian to select his materials from several different sources, and to compare them and arrange them into a coherent historiographic narrative (历史学叙述). The Histories — the only work he is known to have produced — concerns the origins of the Persian Wars (波斯战争), and includes a wealth of geographical and ethnographical (人种志的) information. Ironically enough, he was once known by earlier scholars as the “father of lies”, because despite his unusually modern approach to historiography, he also included distracting folk tales and unusual stories in his work. Modern scholars are more appreciative and consider him to be a pioneer in historiography, anthropology and ethnography because of the information he gathered on his numerous journeys.