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Thucydides or Herodotus?

#1 Thucydides		7 (77.8%)
#2 Herodotus		2 (22.2%)

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Filuwaúrdjan
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Re: Thucydides or Herodotus?

« on: December 15, 2012, 02:56:56 PM »

lol?

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Filuwaúrdjan
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Re: Thucydides or Herodotus?

« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2012, 03:13:19 PM »

Meh, they were both fabulists so it's hard to care greatly. Neither are at all relevant to history as a contemporary academic discipline and anyone who suggests otherwise is (by definition) a pretentious idiot. Anyways, I suppose Thucydides was less of a brazen liar, but then being less of a brazen liar than Herodotus isn't really saying much. Is that a satisfactory answer?

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Filuwaúrdjan
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Re: Thucydides or Herodotus?

« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2012, 03:17:17 PM »

Quote from: politicus on December 15, 2012, 03:14:31 PM

Thucydides is likely much closer to the historical truth.

Oh, certainly. If you were just to randomly make up a load of stuff that happened during a period that Herodotus was writing about, it would be closer to the historical truth than whatever Herodotus wrote...

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Filuwaúrdjan
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Re: Thucydides or Herodotus?

« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2012, 03:45:23 PM »

Anyways, obligatory:

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