Most educated people - and indeed most of those whose experience of history is confined to what they were taught at school - have heard of the father of historians - as opposed to the father of history (Herodotus) - Thucydides. The difference between the twin fathers of the historian's craft is the gulf that separates the standardised history that is taught to the majority of people and the critical history that the historian uses his or her intellectual tools and techniques of analysis and interpretation in order to create.
Thucydides, the Phoenicians and the Jews
Thucydides, the Phoenicians and the Jews
Thucydides, the Phoenicians and the Jews
Most educated people - and indeed most of those whose experience of history is confined to what they were taught at school - have heard of the father of historians - as opposed to the father of history (Herodotus) - Thucydides. The difference between the twin fathers of the historian's craft is the gulf that separates the standardised history that is taught to the majority of people and the critical history that the historian uses his or her intellectual tools and techniques of analysis and interpretation in order to create.