If you like Herodotus, you should also try Thucydides, who wrote just slightly later. His attitude towards history is strikingly modern, to the point when it's

If you like Herodotus, you should also try Thucydides, who wrote just slightly later. His attitude towards history is strikingly modern, to the point when it's a shock when he mentions some "new" piece of technology that's 2,500 years old.