Thucydides was unlike the poets of he time, he was unlike them, because of the method that he recorded history. He would only tell the story how it was, and he didn't add anything to the story, he didn't exagerate the story like all of the poets, and other writers did to make the story more interesting. He told the truth, and nothing but the truth. He would also not just hear a story and write it down. He would hear may peoples stories, then compare them to one another, to make the story be as close to what actually happened as possible. In terms of getting the stories, he would get them only from eye witnesses, or him self as am eye witness. So all in all he just wanted the truth, and he wanted to tell history, not a fantasy, no matter how boring, he told it how history happend.
Thucydides wrote history because he wanted people to know what was going on, and he wanted them to learn history. Thucydides specifically wrote history for people who wanted to know about history, and the truth, and what actually happend. He wanted to teach people, and tell them about history, and not many people cared, because they were more into the fantasy and the cool stories, which meant that Thucydides was writing for a pretty small group of people.
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