History work

A history work is a literary work that deals with history and records it for posterity. The Greek historian Herodotus is considered the father of historiography (in Europe) , the scientific method goes back to Thucydides .

Historical works are u. a.

• Histories , Herodotus
• History of the Peloponnesian War , Thucydides
• Ab urbe condita , Titus Livius
• Histories and annals , Tacitus
• Res Gestae , Ammianus Marcellinus
• Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum , Beda Venerabilis
• Chronica sive Historia de duabus civitatibus , Otto von Freising
• Kojiki
• Nihonshoki
• Tennōki and Kokki

See also

• History of historiography

literature

• Erich Bayer and Frank Wende: Dictionary of History . 5th edition, Stuttgart 1995.
• Volker Reinhardt (Ed.): Main works of historiography (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 435). Kröner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-520-43501-2 .

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