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A double marble bust of Herodotus (left), and Thucydides (right), joined back-to-back and facing in opposite directions, about 484-420 BC. Photographed by Mike Maxwell in the summer of 2006 at an exhibit at the Colosseum in Rome.

Greece was in many ways the cradle, and forge of Western thought, and the roles that the great writers of Greece adopted in documenting history set the standards for all historians to follow. But Herodotus and Thucydides had quite different visions, standards and styles, as this famous bust implies. Which view of history is best is one of the questions historians now debate.

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Herodotus (11 posts)

Historical Thread
The board to share our thoughts on Greece's first great historian
Herodotus vs Thucydides (* DIonysia Xanthippos, May 5, 2008 - 20:32 )
Translating Herodotus - an impossible task? (* DIonysia Xanthippos, Apr 29, 2008 - 11:49 )
Re: The ART of Translation (* Demetrios Xanthippos, Feb 25, 2004 - 10:15 )

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Xenophon (7 posts)

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Xenophon
A new volume from HUP (Harvard University Press) on the Anabasis (* Aurelian Junius, Jul 24, 2007 - 22:38 )
Xenophon and Alexandros (* Gal Alexandros, Mar 13, 2006 - 03:35 )
Thankyou (* Pyrrhus Theocritos, Oct 2, 2003 - 04:09 )

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Thucydides (5 posts)

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The father of the Peloponnesian War, Statesman, soldier, business man, orator, and classic Greek. The man was a master of everything he touched.
Excellant article Publius_ (* Reylari Socrates, Nov 27, 2004 - 06:43 )
Thucydides and his early speeches (* Publius Fabius Scipio, Nov 26, 2004 - 18:44 )
no title (* Mellitus Isocrates, Oct 25, 2003 - 01:14 )

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