Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: 1998 In Pride Fc, Larnax
14 Jan 2015
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History is an attempt to come up with why those events happened so that you can argue whether the events will happen again. Want to find cause some trend that explains history (historians interested) Chain of linked events, historians job find link. Logographers: guys that were paid to write speeches for you when you had to go to court. Write stories about geographical locations outside of greece: what customs do they have etc, people want to know about this info without travelling, they learn that they are different than other people. He was trying to make sense of the persian wars. Had an idea of what makes people do things and what causes their ambitions to collapse. If you have confidence in human mind to understand the world: then if you have an idea of something you can make general assumptions of other things.
