Herodotus was born at Halicamassus, which is a Greek city in southwest Asia Minor that was then under Persian rule. It is said that he was in Athens, or at least in central Greece, during the Peloponnesian War. He was a wide traveler and traveled for many years. One opinion about Herodotus's writing is that he "began with a plan for the history of the war and that later he decided on a description of the Persian Empire itself. " "Herodotus was a great traveler with an eye for detail, a good geographer, a man with an indefatigable interest in the customs and past history of his fellowmen, and a man of the widest tolerance." He was one of the first Greek historians. He remains a leading source of information of the period between 550 BC and 479 BC. (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/263507/Herodotus )
Thucydides
Thucydides lived from 460 BC - 400 BC. He was a Greek historian of Athens, and one of the greatest of ancient historians. He was a general in the Peloponnesian and failed to prevent the surrender of Amphipolis to Brasidas. He was exiled until the end of the war. "He thus had opportunity to acquaint himself with both the Athenians and the Spartans and to acquire firsthand information for his one work." His work, History of the Peloponnesian War, covered 431 BC to 411 BC. This work inteprets the succession of events in view of the general behavior of man, rather than as the result of a fate outside a man's influence. Thucydides is acclaimed as the creator of scholarly history as we know it today.
Titus Livius, or Livy, lived fromy 59 BC - 17 AD. He was a historian who wrote a history of Rome and the Roman people. It was called Ab Urbe Condita Libri, which means "Chapters from the Foundation of the City." It covered the period from the earliest legend of Rome through the region of Augustus in Livy's own time. He was close with the Julio-Claudian family, and advised Augustus's nephew, the future emperor Claudius, to take up the writing of history. He was a well known historian. (http://www.timelineindex.com/content/view/2179)
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