History Literature
History Literature is what many people consider to be the cradle of literature as a whole, like Ortak to designer jewelery. The reason - writing as a form of communicating was developed so that events could be recorded and thus memories to remain fresh among people and nations. It is a common fact that history literature would be normally considered to be just a factological narrative or just a sequence of events, but this is what made writing develop and evolve into the modern day literature genres.
To prove such statements, proof is needed. The perfect example for the formation of modern day literature is probably the poems of Homer - Illiad and Oddyssey. Initially these ancient Greek works were tales about historic events that took place centuries before christ. This would be the Troy War ( described in Illiad) and the return of the Greek soldiers after the war ( Oddyssey ) - in these works the main highlights are focused on the historic events believed to have happened (since now we consider them to be legends but for the Greeks of that time they must have actually happened) but Homer includes so much more than just describing the believed past - he includes relationships between people, includes the fiction that he created about Gods and demi gods, includes the personal expectations and actions of particular characters. This all proves that his works were based on history but developed trough personal happenings.
Since then the history writings passed through many stages before history and fiction became distinctive genres - this would be the middle ages literature when fiction and history mixed in specific theological writings, renaissance when history bound fiction and fictitious works were influenced by the historical circumstances of the age, and reaching today when both separated and people can easily distinguish them. The truth is obvious - history texts gave birth to the modern day work of writters and poets and determined the evolution of fiction and factological writing.
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