Question

What is the difference between Homer's stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey and the writings of Thucydides and Herodotus? In other words what did Thucydides and Herodotus do to write History?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Herodotus wrote about the wars between Persia and Greece. Thucydides wrote about the civil war between Athens and Sparta. Together these ancient Greek writers became the first true historians in Western civilization.