Question
This historian criticized Timaeus of Tauromenium for making inaccurate judgments of eyewitness testimony included in his historical works. This historian claimed that a commonwealth was united by a “scrupulous fear of the gods.” This historian claimed that Cleoxenus and Democleitus invented a fire-signaling technique to communicate individual letters, known as this historian’s “square.” This was the first historian to record the story of a young (*) Hannibal Barca placing his hand on a sacrificed animal and swearing never to be friends with Rome. In Book VI of his most famous work, this historian claimed that the Romans were pre-eminent due to their adoption of a mixed constitution. This historian theorized that governments cycle between “basic” and “degenerate” forms such as monarchy and tyranny. For 10 points, name this Greek historian and author of the Histories. ■END■
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