Discuss the contribution of Thucydides to Historiography by explaning the Greek history and Tradition of history writing.

The most famous critic—and emulator—of Herodotus was Thucydides . Whereas Herodotus had hoped to preserve the glory of Greeks and barbarians from the destruction of time, Thucydides had little glory to celebrate. In his great work, the History of the Peloponnesian War, which describes the destructive conflict  between Athens and Sparta, Thucydides aimed “not to write down the first story that came my way, and not even to be guided by my own general impressions.” When reporting on events that he did not personally witness, he carefully checked the reports of eyewitnesses, bearing in mind their partiality and imperfect memories. “It may be,” he concedes,

that my history will be less easy to read because of the absence in it of a romantic element. It will be enough for me, however, if these words of mine are judged useful by those who want to understand clearly the events that happened in the past and that will, at some time or other and in much the same _____ ________ ______ __________ __________ ________ _________ ________ __________.
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