istoria definition
istoria which means enquiry, research or exploration. Thucydides the ancient Greek historian is still recognized and honoured as the Father of Scientific History, since he realized the hope of his predecessor Herodotus to achieve a scientific knowledge of past human actions. The dominant influence on Thucydides was the influence of Hippocratic medicine19, which is evident in the former‟s description of the plague and his enquiry into the laws according to which the historic events happen. However, humanism, not scientific temper, was the dominant characteristic of Greco – Roman historiography. Even the flickering light of scientific outlook of Greco – Roman historiographers was obliterated in the medieval – Christian historiography. Along with the revival of a humanistic view of history during Renaissance accurate scholarship once again assumed importance.