Title: Histories (Herodotus)
Content: ; also known as The History ) of Herodotus is considered the founding work of history in Western literature. Written in 430 in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serves as a record of the ancient traditions, politics, geography, and clashes of various cultures that were known in Greece, Western Asia and Northern Africa at that time. Although not a fully impartial record, it remains one of the West's most important sources regarding these affairs. Moreover, it established the genre and study of history in the Western world (despite the existence of historical records and chronicles beforehand). The Histories ( Ἱστορίαι  The Histories also stands as one of the earliest accounts 
Title: Histories (Tacitus)
Content: Damon, Cynthia (2003) Tacitus, Histories, Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) ISBN: 9780521578226 Damon, Cynthia (2003) Tacitus, Histories, Book I (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics) ISBN: 9780521578226 
Title: List of historians
Content: Herodotus (484 – c. 420 BCE), Halicarnassus, wrote the Histories, which established Western historiography ; Thucydides (460 – c. 400 BCE), Peloponnesian War ; Xenophon (431 – c. 360 BCE), Athenian knight and student of Socrates ; Ctesias (early 4th century BCE), Greek historian of Assyrian, Persian, and Indian history 
Title: Histories (Herodotus)
Content: Historical novels sourcing material from Herodotus: 
Title: The Histories (Polybius)
Content:  The first English translation, made by Christopher Watson, was published in London in 1568 as The hystories of the most famous and worthy cronographer Polybius. F. W. Walbank wrote a comprehensive commentary on the Histories in three volumes, which was published between 1957 and 1979.
Title: Histories (Tacitus)
Content:  Histories (Historiae) is a Roman historical chronicle by Tacitus. Written c. 100&ndash;110, it covers c. 69&ndash;96, a period which includes the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, as well as the period between the rise of the Flavian dynasty under Vespasian and the death of Domitian. Together, the Histories and the Annals amounted to 30 books. Saint Jerome refers to these books explicitly, and about half of them have survived. Although scholars disagree on how to assign the books to each work, traditionally, fourteen are assigned to Histories and sixteen to the Annals. Tacitus' friend Pliny the Younger referred to "your histories" when writing to Tacitus about the earlier work. By the time Tacitus had completed the Histories, it covered Roman history from AD 69, following Nero's death, to AD 96, the end of Domitian's reign. The Annals deals with the five decades before Nero, from AD 14, the reign of Tiberius, to AD 68, when Nero died.
Title: The Histories (Polybius)
Content:  Polybius’ Histories ( Historíai) were originally written in 40 volumes, only the first five of which are extant in their entirety. The bulk of the work was passed down through collections of excerpts kept in libraries in the Byzantine Empire. Polybius, a historian from the Greek city of Megalopolis in Arcadia, was taken as a hostage to Rome after the Roman victory in the Third Macedonian War (171–168 BC), and there he began to write an account of the rise of Rome to a great power.
Title: The Histories (Polybius)
Content: Polybius; Frank W. Walbank, Ian Scott-Kilvert (1979). The Rise of the Roman Empire. Penguin Classics. ISBN: 0-14-044362-2. 
Title: Polybius
Content:  five books survive entirely intact, along with a large portion of the sixth book and fragments of the rest. Along with Cato the Elder (234–149 BC), he can be considered one of the founding fathers of Roman historiography. Livy made reference to and uses Polybius' Histories as source material in his own narrative. Polybius was among the first historians to attempt to present history as a sequence of causes and effects, based upon a careful examination and criticism of tradition. He narrated his history based upon first-hand knowledge. The Histories capture the varied elements of the story of human behavior: nationalism, xenophobia, duplicitous politics, war, brutality, 
Title: Historiography
Content:  composed by a ruler. Polybius ( – 120 BCE) wrote on the rise of Rome to world prominence, and attempted to harmonize the Greek and Roman points of view. The Chaldean priest Berossus ( BCE) composed a Greek-language History of Babylonia for the Seleucid king Antiochus I, combining Hellenistic methods of historiography and Mesopotamian accounts to form a unique composite. Reports exist of other near-eastern histories, such as that of the Phoenician historian Sanchuniathon; but he is considered semi-legendary and writings attributed to him are fragmentary, known only through the later historians Philo of Byblos and Eusebius, who asserted that he wrote before even the Trojan war.

Question: Who is the author of The Histories?
Answer: Polybius.
Polybius of Megalopolis.