[nverno]

He was like the original historian, though. Everyone's a critic.

[dmoy]

Thucydides is imo the original historian from that era. Herodotus was much more of a storyteller

[yawboakye]

not to nitpick but originally a history was a story/narrative, which inadvertently made the historian a storyteller. herodotus remains unparalleled in that sense, imo.

[virissimo]

The books of Samuel and Kings from the Hebrew Bible predate Herodotus' Histories by quite some time.