Who was the greatest historian of the Greek classical age?

Answer 1

Herodotus
Herodotus. He was the first that tried to verify his sources and to separate myths and folklore from historical facts.

Answer 2

The best Ancient Greek historians was probably Herodotus he was very fact-based but he does slip in mythology told through generations so some of it isn't too true!

Answer 3

There were many Roman Historians. Famous ones are Livy, Tacitus, Sallust, Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Appianus, Gnaeus Gellius and Ammianus Marcellinus.

Answer 4

Thucydides wrote on the first 20 years to 411 BCE. Xenephon finished off the last 7 years of the war.

Answer 5

Herodotus, a Greek historian known as the 'father of history', was born in Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey) in about 484 BC.

Answer 6

Thucydides

Answer 7

Herodotos.

Answer 8

Herodotus

Answer 9

Herodotus.