The ancient Greeks revered so much history, that they have assigned a muse (Clio) to the concept of history.Originally the meaning of this term involves research (analysis) and communication of its results.
Herodotus was the first to point out that the history is of terrible importance to after-ages, and it has an instructive role. Belgian historian Léon Halkin said that “the history of human knowledge helps. History is like the earth on which we live.”
The notion of history is a legacy of Greek antiquity. Etymology (word derivation is most often associated only with the origin of words and tracking their changes of form and meaning of the oldest etymon (source word) knew), comes from the Ionian dialect. We owe its meanings to Herodotus, the “Father of history.”
Herodotus’ effort was devoted to elucidating the causes and conduct of the medic wars (490-479 BC) a laborious investigation, which make equally spatio-temporal conditions of the flowering of Greek civilization.
Herodotus’ effort was devoted to elucidating the causes and conduct of the medic wars (490-479 BC) a laborious investigation, which make equally spatio-temporal conditions of the flowering of Greek civilization.
Herodotus reported in the manner of the storyteller. The stories were perfect on the meaning of a story directly or indirectly known author and deserve to be presented to the public. They marked the beginnings of historical writing. With Herodotus, the period of history content will constantly acquire new meanings. Even in the Greco-Roman antiquity, valuable papers issued by Thucydides, Polibiu, Alan Titus, Tacitus or Plutarch proving that history tends to individualize the distinct field of knowledge, different from that of philosophy, literature, ethnology and geography.
The great historians of Greece need to be mentioned:
Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Strabo, Plutarch
