Herodotus,Thucydides, and Livy

Herodotus was a Greek also known as "the Father of History". He was the first person to go out and write what he saw. He tested everything that he saw to make it into a well constructed narrative. He wrote about the Persian War.

Thucydides wrote the Pelopenisian Wars. He was a scholar who wanted to get the story right. He was also known as the Father of Scientific History. He studied about human natures and why they do things they do.

Livy was a Roman historian in the time of Augustus. He wrote the history of Rome from Romulus and Remus up and till his time period. Book 21 of Livy's history of Rome is where we get the story of Hannibal and the Second Punic War.


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