WORLD CIVILIZATION

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 (/(j)uːˈsɪdɪˌdiːz/; Ancient Greek: , romanized: Thoukudídēs; c. 460 – c. 400 BC) was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC.

Detailed explanation-3: -Herodotus has been called the “father of history.” An engaging narrator with a deep interest in the customs of the people he described, he remains the leading source of original historical information not only for Greece between 550 and 479 BCE but also for much of western Asia and Egypt at that time.

Detailed explanation-4: -Herodotus is most well known for his historical accounts. He is remembered as being arguably the very first historian ever.

Detailed explanation-5: -This is the first systematic attempt to compare Herodotus and Thucydides as contemporaries, that is, as pre-Socratic thinkers who employed rather similar concepts and intellectual tools and who worked within the same theoretical framework or space.