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15994801

Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:31:57 2020 No.15994801 [Reply] [Original]

Who are the most /lit/ historians?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:33:26 2020 No.15994811 >>15994801 Tacitus, Florus, Livy

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:34:50 2020 No.15994823 File: 59 KB, 1280x720, maxresdefault.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Tom Holland?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:35:33 2020 No.15994827 >>15994801 Will and Ariel Durant Arnold Toynbee

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:35:58 2020 No.15994831 >>15994811 Tacitus and Polybius are basically the best historians of all time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:37:38 2020 No.15994847 File: 94 KB, 900x352, DmbwfoeWwAE7S5E.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] These are the themes Thucydides introduces at the beginning of his History of the Peloponnesian War. Name one modern historian who can do better (you can't).

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 17:15:57 2020 No.15995623 >>15994847 From what book is that excerpt, I would like to read it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 17:33:38 2020 No.15995744 >>15995623 >These are the themes Thucydides introduces at the beginning of his History of the Peloponnesian War. >History of the Peloponnesian War.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 17:36:23 2020 No.15995770 >>15995744 Naturally, but from what book is the text in the image, I get that it describes the History of the Peloponnesian war; but it is not itself the History of the peloponnesian war. So I ask again; from where?