HI346- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
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Primary sources: definition: ancient sources which are contemporary with the events they report. eg. thucydides and the peloponnesian war, extant primary sources, summary: many excellent primary sources but none survive! Note; also ephemerides (journals) of eumenes which are often thought to be a forgery of some sort, which are often quoted re: the death of alexander. Secondary sources missing up to slide 12: definition: non-contemporary sources, both ancient and modern. It is the ancient secondary sources we are most interested in here: general issues. Time between primary and secondary sources: ~ 300 years: people in a different mindset after that much time has passed, only way to copy a book was by hand and many mistakes may happen by doing this. Judicious: secondary authors may corrupt their primary source or follow it very closely, the big five. Diodorus siculus" universal history: book 17 dedicated to alexander (second half of the. 1st century bc); war monograph: writing about a specific war.
