CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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Question
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They wanted to explain legends and myths.
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They wanted to present information that was accurate.
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They wanted to provide the reasons for war.
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They wanted to tell stories so people would honor the Gods.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Herodotus wrote about the wars between Persia and Greece. Thucydides wrote about the civil war between Athens and Sparta. Together these ancient Greek writers became the first true historians in Western civilization.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thucydides believed that the Peloponnesian War represented an event of unmatched importance. As such, he began to write the History at the onset of the war in 431 BC. He declared his intention was to write an account which would serve as “a possession for all time".
Detailed explanation-3: -His principal aim was to explain the unlikely Greek victory against the much stronger Persian army in the so-called Persian Wars that ravaged the Greek world between 500 and 449 BCE.
Detailed explanation-4: -Herodotus and Thucydides are the two most well-known Greek historians in the world. Herodotus was described as the ‘father of history’ by Cicero whilst Thucydides is considered by many scholars to be the father of both international relations and war studies.