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Thucydides was the person who wrote the story of the Peloponnesian war. He was a scholar and wanted to get the story right. He had a great interest in understanding human nature. His History of the Peloponnesian War was divided into eight sections after his death. It contains the entire twenty-seven year long history of the wars between Athens and Sparta. Many of his writings are still studied at major colleges and universities.

Livy was a Roman historian and lived during Augustus' reign. He wrote a history of Rome from its beginning to his own time period. It was called "Chapters from the Foundation of the City." It is written in several different volumes. Book 21 of Livy's history of Rome is the story of Hannibal and the Second Punic War. This is one of his most famous works.

Herodotus was a Greek historian. He was the first person to go out and talk to people about history. Herodotus mainly talked about the Persian Wars. Without his account of the Greco-Persian wars, there would be only poorly documented information on them.