How would you describe the way Herodotus approached the study of history

Erodotus was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus in the Persian Empire (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484-c. 425 BC), a contemporary of Thucydides, Socrates, and Euripides. He is often referred to as "The Father of History", a title first conferred by ... (Hence the proverbial expression "Herodotus and his shade" to describe ...