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HISTORY HISTORIANS REVEAL AS MUCH ABOUT THEIR OWN TIMES AS THEY DO ABOUT THE PAST, SAYS JOHN ADAMSON
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A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles and Inquiries from
Herodotus and Thucydides
to the Twentieth Century
BY JOHN BURROW
ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN, pounds 25, 552 pp
T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Herodotus on Thermopylae; Livy on Rome's struggle with Carthage;
Clarendon on the 'Great Rebellion' that destroyed King Charles I:
until the end of the 19th century, these writers - together with
Bede, Machiavelli, Gibbon and a dozen others besides - were widely
esteemed as history's 'great men'; writers whose insights into human
conduct and affairs had an enduring wisdom, even ...
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