Pioneers of History

• He was born in Halicarnassus, which is a Greek colony on the coast of Asia Minor around 485 B.C.


  Herodotus
• He was called “Father of the History” because he wrote about the Greek wars against Persia during the third decade of the fifth century B.C.

  Herodotus
• Was a Greek historian and author of the History of the Peloponnesian War, which recounts the 5th century B.C.

  Thucydides
• Dubbed as the father of "Scientific History" due to his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect.

  Thucydides