West Civ Project Knaide: Biography of Herodotus, Thucydides, and Livy

Herodotus was a Greek historian born in 484 B.C., and he is known as the Father of History.

He travelled throughout the known world, including Asia Minor, Egypt, and even Palestine and Babylon. He eventually settled in Athens. Throughout his travels, he took note of the customs and stories of the different groups of people he came across. In Athens, he wrote The Histories, which explained not only the Greco-Persian Wars, but also the customs and history of the different places he had travelled to. Herodotus eventually died in 450 B.C., in Thurii, Italy.

http://historicalbiographies.suite101.com/article.cfm/biography_herodotus

http://www.sacklunch.net/biography/H/Herodotus.html

Thucydides was a Greek historian born near Athens who took a great interest in writing about the Peloponnesian War. He was banned from Athens because he was not able to protect an important city during this war. After this, he went around talking to people about the war, and taking in everything he heard. Unlike Herodotus, he did not write everything he heard; he chose what he wanted to believe and wrote down whatever supported that.

http://wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/THUCY.HTM

Titus Livius, or Livy, was a Roman historian who was born in Patavium. He moved to Rome and began to write an entire history of Rome. There, he did not get much involved in war and politics. Livy wrote the history in a very traditional way. Livy spent probably the rest of his life completing 142 books. It is not certain when he died; it was either in A.D. 12 or A.D. 17. Either way, many of his books didn't actually get published until after his death.