= Сообщение: 3145 из 12518 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Gerrit Kuehn 2:240/12 05 Dec 15 08:10:18 Кому : Ward Dossche 05 Dec 15 08:10:18 Тема : Re: How to properly read historical texts FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:240/12+54e0dee3 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:292/854+a4076035 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: LATIN-1 ================================ Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5662d8d2 ============================================================================== Hello Ward!
04 Dec 15 21:07, Ward Dossche wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
WD> The difference being that there is a lot of 20th century context to WD> be found.
Sure, making things difficult in a different way. Having only one or very few similar sources of information might lead to make you think that you already have a broad picture. OTOH, having a vast amount of sources makes it hard to get an overview. But this shows the difficulty quite well: we do not have that many sources from ancient Rome. DBG sticks out because it is exceptionally well written, but it is *not* a history book striving for truth, objectivity or something like that. It was written by a military leader on his way to overthrow the government of the Roman republic and become a dictator. In that aspect it is quite similar to MK, only that Caesar's Latin is much more beautiful than Hitler's German, but there we are talking about the literary quality. On the content side, one should be very careful before giving Caesar a higher credibility or regarding his texts as a better source of historical information just because there are not so many available from that time, they are exceptionally well written and taught at our schools for centuries (for that reason, and not because they are so historically sound). BTW: Cicero has warned about exactly that already shortly after DBG has been published.
Regards, Gerrit
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