# Herodotus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MOITTE, Jean-Guillaume]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Stone ## Commentary This relief is on the right of the left window, right part of the west façade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre Palace. Herodotus \(c. 484 BC-c. 425 BC\) was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire. He is known for having written the book The Histories, a detailed record of his "inquiry" on the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars. ## Related artworks - [Cassini]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()