Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #27: Thucydides (460BC-395BC) Thucydides (460BC-395BC) was likely the greatest historian of the ancient world and wrote History of the Peloponnesian War. He broke new ground as a historian in that he gathered all available evidence, decided what he deemed the truth, and then shaped his presentation to emphasize that truth, as opposed to recording almost all he heard indiscriminately. Thucydides regarded human nature, which can ultimately be rationally understood, as the basic cause of historical events, not the will of the gods and fate, which by their natures are outside the realm of rational explanation. In other words, he brought history and the analysis of events fully into the realm of reason and worldliness. Go to #28: Montesquieu Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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