On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian by John Marincola
Author:John Marincola
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141393582
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-10-24T04:00:00+00:00
Historians and their Sources
(Natural Questions 4b.3.1)
… if I assure you that hail is formed in the same way that ice is here on earth,6 when an entire cloud is frozen, I will have done something too bold. And so count me among those witnesses of a second order who say they have not seen something but have heard it. Or I myself will do what historians do: when they have told lots of lies to their heart’s content, they take one item and refuse to vouch for it, and add, ‘The responsibility for this must rest with my sources.’7
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