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Philosophy of history

  • HistoriographyIn 484 BC, Herodotus of Halicarnassus began writing The Histories. This work marked the first systematic attempt to distinguish between reliable and…
  • EuhemerismIn the late 4th century BC, a Greek mythographer named Euhemerus wrote a work called Hiera Anagraphe. This text proposed that gods were once mortal kings who…
  • Great man theoryThomas Carlyle delivered a series of lectures on heroism in 1840 that would later become the foundation for the great man theory.