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By Luke Pitcher
"History is the model of prior occasions that individuals have made up our minds to agree upon," stated Napoleon. but the particular writing of heritage, specifically historic heritage, is a tradition that frequently activates extra discord than assent. In his new textbook, Luke Pitcher goals to beat the hostility which exists among rival camps of their learn of classical historiography. the 1st camp seems on the classical historians with an eye fixed to what facts they could supply concerning the old global. the second one camp examines the traditional writers as literary texts of their personal correct, making use of the instruments of literary feedback and fascinating with such issues as narrative artistry. trying to fuse those -- jointly suspicious -- methods, Luke Pitcher's beautiful advent bargains undergraduate scholars of classics the 1st entire advent to historiography in antiquity out there. It unites the nitty-gritty of the historian's exchange (the discovering and coping with of information) to an know-how of the significance of fashion, shape, allusion and composition. The booklet additionally seeks to do justice to invididual classical historians, and discusses such vital figures as Livy, Tacitus, Herodotus, Cicero, Plutarch and Lucian. A finished bibliography and thesaurus are incorporated. Writing old background finally does complete justice to the mechanics of history-writing within the historic global.
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A statement of method is also a piece of self-promotion, an assertion of singularity. 63 The Megalopolitan historian is, as we have already noted, remarkably free with comments on acceptable standards of historical practice. A high proportion of the comments are devoted to criticizing the failure to live up to these standards of other historiographers. Indeed, Polybius is fully capable of criticizing a historian (in this case, as in many others, the Sicilian Timaeus) for not knowing how to criticize other historians properly, as when he censures Timaeus’s attack on Aristotle: ‘I am even ready to concede that Timaeus’s account is more probable.
Lie to Me An author may simply lie about the nature of his enterprise or the methods he has used to undertake it. 22 The question becomes a little more complicated 28 02_Ancient History_025-046 27/7/09 13:08 Page 29 The Natures of History where the authors of antiquity are concerned. 23 It is therefore not always easy to establish conclusively when a classical author is telling deliberate untruths in the full awareness of what he is doing. Misinformation by lost sources, excessive credulity or incompetence are usually possible alternatives.
Where he or she is less obliging, we are usually dependent upon biographical information released after the author’s death. The situation in antiquity may well have been different. There are certainly cases where one possible explanation of apparent inconsistencies in a historian’s work is that he lacked either the opportunity or the inclination to ensure total coherence between the earlier and later portions of his oeuvre. The possibility of dying before completion was certainly a hazard of which classical historiographers were aware.