Herodotus or Thucydides?inb4 both
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Herodotus or Thucydides?
>inb4 both
Herodotus. He merely lists what he has heard and allows people to judge if it's bullshit or not. Thucydides just tells you the narrative that he believes is closest truth, and rarely brings up secondary accounts while telling his histories.
>>539522
Thucydides is more like a modern historian than Herodotus, though.
>>539531
>twists facts in to supporting his own narrow perspective of events
sure is
Herodotus is much more interesting to read. Thucydides is too dry. Xenophon blows them both the fuck out though.
>>539433
Daily reminder that Herms like these would almost always have dicks carved in the base.
>>539718
who was the guy that knocked the dicks off all the herms?
>>539733
>In 415 BC, on a night shortly before the Athenian fleet was about to set sail for Syracuse during the Peloponnesian War (see Sicilian Expedition), all of the Athenian hermai were vandalized. This was a horribly impious act and many people believed it threatened the success of the expedition.[8] Though it was never proven, the Athenians at the time believed it was the work of saboteurs, either from Syracuse or Spartan sympathizers from Athens itself; one suspect was the writer Xenophon.[9] Enemies of Alcibiades, using the anger of the Athenians as a pretext to investigate further desecrations, accused him of other acts of impiety, including mutilations of other sacred objects and mocking performances of religious mystery ceremonies.[10] He denied the accusations and offered to stand trial, but the Athenians did not want to disrupt the expedition any further, and his opponents wanted to use his absence to incite the people against him at a time when he would not be able to defend himself. Once he had left on the expedition, his political enemies had him charged and sentenced to death in absentia, both for the mutilation of the hermai, and the supposedly related crime of profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Stone dicks are serious business.
>>539752
>trying to save athens from invaders
>for some reason have tons of political enemies
why
>>539757
>Democracy was a mistake
>t. Pericles
>>539433
Ranke.
>>539531
Yeah Thucydides is clearly the more scientific of the two. Not that he's anywhere near modern standards of course. Herodotus was less ethnocentric though if any of you are into that.
>>539433
>Thucydides
Thucydides.
