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The writings of Herodotus and Thucydides at times can be seen as similar, but with different intentions. These two contemporary writers tell their stories or histories in this case for different reasons. In some of their writings they tell the story of war. Herodotus gives us insight on the war with Persia. Thucydides gives us an idea of what the Peloponnesian was like. Both wrote so the events that occurred during their time would not be forgotten. These two men seem to have set the foundations for historians in the future. Their documentation of events and their investigations laid the ground work of why and how historians should get involved with digging up facts from the past. Herodotus believed in studying events so they would not be forgotten. It seems that he had a deep sense of pride in his Athenian heritage. His work tends to glorify the work of Greece and its countrymen. His work also was meant to be a source of entertainment rather than historical findings. His glorification of Greece and its heroic people leaves his work to be suspect of whether or not his intentions were to teach future generations what Greece was like and events that may have occurred to help shape modern day Greece. It is hard to tel