tbf thatâs just historians minus one step
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Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works âš3â© âšdaysâ© ago
History is written by people who write stuff down.
PugJesus@piefed.social âš3â© âšdaysâ© ago
NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net âš3â© âšdaysâ© ago
We know about the Persian empire in the time of the ancient Greeks because the Greeks wrote about them. The Persians didnât bother. Most Greeks werenât writing stuff down for history, were they?
PugJesus@piefed.social âš3â© âšdaysâ© ago
We know about the Persian empire in the time of the ancient Greeks because the Greeks wrote about them. The Persians didnât bother.
Much of the Persian corpus of the period is lost to us due to several waves of literary destruction, not because they didnât bother.
Most Greeks werenât writing stuff down for history, were they?
As mentioned elsewhere in this comment section, history is not just the events of the past, but how they are arranged into a coherent narrative.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works âš3â© âšdaysâ© ago
True, and dead people make poor writers.