English to Greek Art/Literary Poetry & Literature

Did Herodotus intend his work to be at base a *constructed* and thus implicitly persuasive form of narrative, with all the (rhetorical) possibilities for invention that entails? Or was it instead his intent to produce a neutral, impartial, and, as much as possible, transparent account of past human social realities? Unlike Thucydides, Herodotus does not tell us.

Μιλάμε για 'κατασκευασμένο συγγραφέα' - μιλάει τουλάχιστον ο Τζιόβας. Μιλάμε και για 'κατασκευασμένη αφήγηση';