context: Herodotus or Herodotus, in Latin: Herodotus) was a Greek-Asian historian who lived in the fifth century BC (around 484 BC - 425 BC). He is best known for his descriptions of many places he visited around the then known world, and people he met on his travels and wrote numerous about Persian control of Greece.
question: In what century did the historian Herodotus live?
answers.text: fifth century BC