Xenophon: Where did journalism come from?

Instead of fanciful tales shared by locals like Herodotus, or extremely detailed political goings-on, Xenophon shares simpler, how-it-was works from his own experience.

Herodotus was fun and curious, with an endless zest for puzzling out how things had wound up the way they were. His extant work most famously studied the conflict between the Persians and the Greek city-states. A thoughtful professor even saw a path forward for us as human beings in the way this ancient Greek wrote and thought.

Thucydides spend time weav…