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		dmoy on Dec 5, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: According to Plutarch, Julius Caesar was once capt... Thucydides is imo the original historian from that era. Herodotus was much more of a storyteller

yawboakye on Dec 5, 2023 | [–]

not to nitpick but originally a history was a story/narrative, which inadvertently made the historian a storyteller. herodotus remains unparalleled in that sense, imo.

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