| 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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