Compare the ways that Herodotus and Thucydides approach the writing history

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Herodotus is more of histrionic story teller, he likes to sensationalize and exaggerate stories to hyperbolize a moral or lesson. Thucyidides is more of a factual and scientific historian. Both men are considered fathers of historical recounts, they just follow different paths, appealing to different audiences.

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