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Who was the best ancient historian?
Best can mean whatever you want it to, most entertaining, most accurate, best writing style etc

>> No.18820335

>>18820329
Suetonius is fun

>> No.18820346

>>18820329
Thukydides.

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>> No.18820370

>>18820329
Plutarch

>> No.18820383

>>18820329
Tacitus

>> No.18820604

>>18820329
Herodotus

>> No.18820640

>>18820329
Xenophon

>> No.18820770

>>18820329
I like Arrian

>> No.18821139

>>18820329
Plutarch and it's not even close

>> No.18821167

Plutarch easily

>> No.18821180

>>18820329
Diodorus for entertainment
Thucydides for accuracy

>> No.18821363

>>18820370
>>18821139
>>18821167
I'm sorry to tell you that he didn't write history. He was a moralist. I really like him too, but that's just the way he rolled.

>> No.18821393

>>18820329
Sallust.

>> No.18821622

>>18821363
>uhm...yeah...sweetie ok lets unpack this...no plutarch isn't a historian because he sometimes made his heckin opinion known thats like...so cringe and heckin oofy.

>> No.18822303

>>18820329
Ranke is the oldest historian due to his sick burn on moralists. The ancients are moralists.

>> No.18822504

>>18820329
Scriptores Historiae Augustae

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>> No.18823101

>>18820329
Herodotus is a lot of fun. I really felt as if I was travelling around all the known ancient world while reading him.

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>>18820370
>>18821139
>>18821167
Is 'Essays' a good starting point for Plutarch?

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>>18821622
>>uhm...yeah...sweetie ok lets unpack this...no plutarch isn't a historian because he sometimes made his heckin opinion known thats like...so cringe and heckin oofy.

based dabbing on red dit

>> No.18823617

Gibbon

>> No.18823628

Mary Beard

>> No.18823637

>>18820604
Would buy round for/10

>> No.18823655

>>18820329
(in no particular order)
Herodotus
Thucydides
Xenophon

>> No.18823665

>>18823655
(although yes, in chronological order)