HISTORIOGRAPHY OF GREEK PHILOSOPHER

YEAR	AUTHOR	BOOKS	PHILOSOPHY	METHODS	REMARKS

540 BC	HECATEUS	Travel Around the world	reconciling	truthfulness	persian world
		Local Genealogies	mythologies with	critical examination	critic of myths
			history	of conventional myth

490 BC	HERODOTUS	history on persian war	moral & didactive	causes, courses,	liberation of greek
			view	results of war	from persians
					need for history to
					construct epic

456 BC	THUCYDIDES	history of peloponnesian	past as aid for future	political aspects	first critical historian
		war	interpretation	social & military
				concequences

198 BC	POLYBIUS	history of Rome	constitution form	constitutional dev. Of
			monarcy/aristrocracy	Rome
			democracy	historical facts
				appropriate method

420 BC	XENOPHONE	memorabilia	history of greece	social life	disciple of socrates
		anabasis	(Hellanica)	military operations
			political/philosophical	greek superiority over
			literary ideas	persians
Greek Historians: anthropocentric, humanistic, human will, scientific inquiry/criticism/analysis. / self revelatory

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January 4, 2012

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