The earliest surviving work of Western history, recounting the Greco-Persian Wars while ranging widely over the customs of many peoples. Its author is often called the 'Father of History.'
Sources for Herodotus — The Histories
Herodotus — The Histories in History
Held in the History chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (−400)
- Polybius — The Histories (−150)
- Sima Qian — Records of the Grand Historian (−94)
- Tacitus — Annals (110)
- Ibn Khaldun — Muqaddimah (1377)
- Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars (−50)
- Livy — The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) (−27)
- Tacitus — Germania (98)
- Suetonius — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (121)
- Gibbon — The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776)
- Macaulay — The History of England (1848)
- Parkman — France and England in North America (1865)