History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET June 2012 History
Who among the following explicitly states that 'History bases all its conclusions on rational evidence'?
AHerodotus
BThucydides ✓ Correct
CPolybius
DTacitus
Correct answer: (B) Thucydides — Thucydides made this statement, so the answer is Thucydides.
Explanation
★Thucydides made this statement, so the answer is Thucydides.
★He was an Athenian historian and general of the fifth century BCE.
★He is regarded as a founder of critical and scientific history.
★His History of the Peloponnesian War records the long conflict between Sparta and Athens.
★He insisted on careful sifting of evidence and rejected myth and hearsay.
★Herodotus, by contrast, is called the Father of History but mixed in many tales.
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