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• 08 Oct 09
  

  Sean H

  istory—the rational and methodical study of the human past—was invented by a single man just under twenty-five hundred years ago; just under twenty-five years ago, when I was starting a graduate degree in Classics, some of us could be pretty condescending

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• 04 Aug 08
  

  Nathan Rein

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• 03 Aug 08
  

  zanefaulkner
• 07 Jun 08
  

  pjana1

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• 28 Apr 08
  

  Swarna Srinivasan

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  Katie Day

  What was Herodotus trying to tell us? by Daniel Mendelsohn

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• 22 Apr 08
  

  To be an admirer of Thucydides’ History, with its deep cynicism about political, rhetorical, and ideological hypocrisy, was to advertise yourself as a hardheaded connoisseur of global Realpolitik. Herodotus, by contrast, always seemed a bit of a sucker.

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