Unlike Herodotus, Thucydides regarded history as the product of choices made by human beings, a matter of cause and effect rather than divine intervention as Herodotus (and later a whole bunch of Christian scholars) did.
Thucydides, nénten sakadi Herodotus, nampénin sejarah punika pinaka produk utawi asil saking sahananing sané kapilih miwah paripolah imanusa miwah ngeniang indik panyangkan miwah krana, boya ja asil saking titah Widhi (yadiastun Herodotus nénten nyumponin unteng patitisé puniki).