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For chicken worth dipping, it better be bird's eye. The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler. This is a special episode on historiography. Oh, you know, you. Historiae is a subject for which you could write an entire podcast series on. We only have one episode to cram this

highly extensive subject into. Historiography in its simplest form is the study of

how history is written. In reality this subject

brings about huge debate on the motivations behind humankind's methods of writing history.

So in this episode we will look at some of the most influential historians in history,

how they wrote their histories,

and what this can tell us about their motivations and subsequently the wider impact of

their work on society. In popular thought Herodotus is often cited as the first historian and is dubbed the

father of history as a consequence. His works were very general and tackled a

number of societies and their origins. He called his works

Historia which we can translate to the histories and consequently give us the first name history as a description of our

science of telling stories of the past. Herodotus was not the first to tell us stories though, so can he truly be called

the first historian?

Other writers gifted us stories of events that happened in their past too, so we should class these as histories too.

Herodotus was alive during the 5th century B.C. in the lands of ancient Greece.

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