CLA260H1 Lecture 5: Lecture 5 - History
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History is not myth; but that does not meant that it is automatically true. History is not fiction; but that does not mean that the historian"s imagination plays no part in the reconstruction of the past. History is not propaganda; but that does not mean that it is therefore invariably neutral and objective. Makes us ask ourselves exactly what the point of achilles" death really is the switch to prose is a very greek invention herodotus, thucydides. Epigraphy particularly distinctive through epigraphy note the dominance of ancient literary prose narrative accounts, starting with herodotus & thucydides, then. Xenophon, polybius, sallust, diodorus, livy, tacitus, etc. but also there is the prominent part played in the modern discipline by epigraphy quote by fergus millar, sources for ancient history (1983) There can have been few major civilisations in which the incision of words on stone or metal for permanent display or record has played no part at all.
