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Different Aims and Purposes of the Historians Herodotus and Thucydides.
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Michael Argenti Different Aims and Purposes of the Historians Herodotus and Thucydides Every historian has certain personal, social and political contexts which affect their writing of history. This can be seen as early as Ancient Greek between the two historians Herodotus and Thucydides. The Greeks were amongst the first in the West to draw up histories by inquiring into such information that led to the facts concerning the past. It is a process that requires careful collection of information, judgment of sources, and the application of reason. Therefore, it attempts to develop history from a scientific rather than a mythical basis. Herodotus was the first Greek historian and is famous for the nine books he wrote on the rise of the Persian Empire, the Persian invaders of Greece in 490 and 480 B.C., the heroic fight of the Greeks against the invaders, and the final Greek victory (the 'Histories'). Thucydides was a...
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