Herodotus: The Father Of History

History does not exist, only present, as past is all myth
While history is written by humans, it is difficult to distinguish between right and wrong due to various factors. Human beings in all ages and places have always had different arguments and viewpoints towards the similar issues. To illustrate, historians cannot agree that a specific type of issues is the main aspect of the time and location as most of historians worked under power. Therefore, historians could not write the truth which can confront the power above them. Additionally, various triggers cause the historian to interpret the events in a way which serves their objective as they provide examples which adjusts their argument and neglect some other facts. Hence, historians end

To be detailed, he stresses on the conflict between Asia and Europe since it was the result of kidnapping Io and other women of Greek; as he emphasizes, “…the Greeks, for the sake of a single Lacedaemonan girl, collected a vast armament, invaded Asia, and destroyed the kingdom of Priam” (Herodotus). While conflicts and wars are considered as a political element, he socially determines happiness as one of the imperative features of history, and he devoted a big space of his book telling the story of Solon, when Croesus asks who could possibly be the happiest person in the world (Herodotus). Indeed, in that story Herodotus shows that happiness is not merely about money, as Solon named two different people as the first and second happiest people in the world instead of Croesus, the rich man. However, Herodotus has a number of causes for transformation in history, including wealth jealousy, oracles, and vengeance of gods, and elegantly Herodotus illustrates these factors using one example; As he writes about story of Arion, Herodotus implicitly mentions wealth and jealousy as the causes of the attempt in which Arion was targeted to be executed, and the dolphin which helped Arion to survive as an oracle or vengeance of gods to the

Hesiod, who is a Greek poet, writes history in a mythological way concentrating on social life rather than politics. Therefore, in his point of view toil and justice are the core issues of history. Hesiod mentions man’s toil as an imperative aspect as he states “…always remembering my charge, work, high-born Perses, that Hunger may hate you, and venerable Demeter richly crowned may love you and fill your barn with food (Hesiod).” Basically, this quote shows how important toil is for men in the Hesiod’s standpoint. Additionally, he represents justices as another valuable aspect in history as he states “…whoever deliberately lies in his witness and forswears himself, and so hurts Justice and sins beyond repair, that man's generation is left obscure thereafter. (Hesiod).” This statement by Hesiod elucidates that he has been for justice and asked for justice, for it is the only way to give democracy a continuation. However, he believes that evilness, women as evil, and violence are the explicit basis of change. For example, Hesiod characterized mankind in fife different generations, and the generations are sequenced from gold to iron. As he said that the last generation would never rest from labor, Hesiod is