WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT GREECE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Herodotus and Thucydides are known for what type of writing?
A
poetry
B
history
C
drama
D
philosophy
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -BRIA 24 3 a Herodotus and Thucydides: Inventing History . 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: -The Histories of Herodotus (c. 484-c. 425 BCE) is the earliest extant historical narrative. Written in the second half of the 5th century BCE, it aims to describe and explain the long history of conflict between Greeks and non-Greeks, culminating in the Graeco-Persian Wars of the early 5th century.

Detailed explanation-3: -Herodotus, (born 484 bce?, Halicarnassus, Asia Minor [now Bodrum, Turkey]?-died c. 430–420), Greek author of the first great narrative history produced in the ancient world, the History of the Greco-Persian Wars.

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