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The Histories was at some point divided into the nine books that appear in modern editions, conventionally named after the nine Muses. The oldest extant copy of Histories by Herodotus are manuscripts from the Byzantine period dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries CE, the (Codex Laurentianus (Codex A)) [3]
Polybius' Histories begin in the year 264 BC and end in 146 BC (Polybius was born around 200 BC and died around 117 BC). He is primarily concerned with the 53 years in which Ancient Rome became a dominant world power.
He wrote the Histories, a detailed account of the Greco-Persian Wars, and was the first writer to apply a scientific method to historical events. He has been described as " The Father of History ", a title conferred on him by the ancient Roman orator Cicero , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and the " Father of Lies " by others.
Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BCE), Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories, which established Western historiography; Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BCE), Peloponesian War; Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BCE), Athenian knight and student of Socrates
The authors who used the Annalistic tradition wrote histories year-by-year, from the beginning, which was most frequently from the founding of the city, usually up until the time that they were living in. Some annalistic authors: Gnaeus Gellius (c. 140 BC) wrote his history from Aeneas until 146 BC.
The Annals and the Histories, published separately, were meant to form a single edition of thirty books. [36] Although Tacitus wrote the Histories before the Annals, the events in the Annals precede the Histories; together they form a continuous narrative from the death of Augustus (14) to the death of Domitian (96). Though most has been lost ...
Paul tells us that the letters he wrote to his communities were dictated to others. The name of at least one— Tertius (meaning just “Third”), the coauthor of the Letter to the Romans ...
Tyrone G. Martin (born 1930) – historian of the USS Constitution and of the history of ironclads; William J. Morgan (1917–2003) Samuel Eliot Morison (1887–1976) – wrote History of United States Naval Operations in World War II and numerous works about the maritime exploration of the Americas