Although the approaches used by Herodotus and Thucydides in their writings differ, both works can be classified as historical because both were written with the same intention of investigating and chronicling past events to preserve them. Both authors intended for their histories to be as accurate as possible, despite writing in different styles. The writers’ narrative styles appear to differ, but they are not all that dissimilar. Thucydides admits to adding in details that he thinks supports what happened when he is uncertain of the exact events that occurred. Herodotus, on the other hand, does not explicitly admit to his embellishments. However, he writes conversations that occur between people in which he could not have been there to actually
