guy 157 Report post Posted March 24, 2021 (edited) Getting history correct can be difficult. Here is an interesting article from Lapham's Quarterly: Quote Herodotus’ Histories and Thucydides’ Peloponnesian Wars transcended chronicle and became history because their authors tried to explain the causes and outcomes of the wars of which they wrote, because they were linking events, acts, and motives causally and for a purpose. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/first-revisionist-historian/?ca_key_code=FB3LQA3 Edited October 14, 2021 by guy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites