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He was like the original historian, though. Everyone's a critic.
by nverno 3y ago
He was like the original historian, though. Everyone's a critic.
- dmoy 3y agoThucydides is imo the original historian from that era. Herodotus was much more of a storyteller
- yawboakye 3y agonot to nitpick but originally a history was a story/narrative, which inadvertently made the historian a storyteller. herodotus remains unparalleled in that sense, imo.
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- virissimo 3y agoThe books of Samuel and Kings from the Hebrew Bible predate Herodotus' Histories by quite some time.