The joy of doing history

History, cultivated as historiography, is both a domain of literature and a subject of scientific research. The article recalled the great significance for the historiography of the ancient singer - the poet Homer and the great historians of ancient Greece: Herodota, Tukidydesa, Ksenofonta and Tacyta. The article proves that practicing history, and even just reading the works of historians, enables an extraordinary journey in time and space, discovering past matters and fascinating them.