Comment on History is written by historians 💪💪💪💪💪

Rampsquatch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  True, and dead people make poor writers.

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• PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tbf that’s just historians minus one step

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  • NotEasyBeingGreen@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We know about the Persian empire in the time of the ancient Greeks because the Greeks wrote about them. The Persians didn’t bother. Most Greeks weren’t writing stuff down for history, were they?

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    • PugJesus@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We know about the Persian empire in the time of the ancient Greeks because the Greeks wrote about them. The Persians didn’t bother.

      Much of the Persian corpus of the period is lost to us due to several waves of literary destruction, not because they didn’t bother.

      Most Greeks weren’t 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.

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