Library History of Europe and Western The Beginning of History Herodotos and Thucydides Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko

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Kodansha Academic Library / Herodotos and Thucydides were both historians who lived in the Giri Shea in the 5th century B.C. and in the Classical Athens in its heyday. However, neither of them regarded themselves as "historians," because the genre of history did not yet exist at that time. This is an introductory book to history, which describes the reality of the two who created a new genre called "historical description" from the literary tradition of Giri Shea and took a step forward into "history," and considers future issues.