The first historian of the Western world was:

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Herodotus is considered the first historian of the Western world, as he wrote the first known work of history in the Western tradition, The Histories, in the 5th century BCE. Hesiod was a poet, not a historian, and Socrates was a philosopher, not a historian. Themistocles was a statesman and general, not a historian, and Thucydides came after Herodotus and is known for his work on the Peloponnesian War, but he was not the first historian.

The First Historian of the Western World Was