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Source Criticism & Sifting Reports
Not just collecting stories but testing them — comparing versions, doubting the implausible, and saying so.
Greek historians moved beyond gathering reports to sifting them critically: weighing rival accounts, rejecting what seemed implausible, and often noting that they relay a tale without vouching for it. Herodotus (5th c. BCE) records variant versions and reserves judgment, while Thucydides (late 5th c. BCE) made the method rigorous, dismissing poets' embellishments and rumor in favor of the most probable reconstruction. This testing of testimony is a foundation of critical history.
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- Antiquitates RomanaeRomeexplains
- In Hippocratis Epidemiarum IRomeexplains
- Ἀλεξάνδρου ἈνάβασιςNicomediaexplains
- Scholia in Iliadem—explains
- De ThucydideRomeexplains
- De DinarchoRomeexplains
- Scholia in Euripidem (scholia vetera)—explains
- Epitome HistoriarumConstantinople (Istanbul)explains
- Epistula ad Africanum—explains
- Commentarii In Evangelium Joannis—explains
- Praeparatio Evangelica—explains
- OrationesPrusaexplains
- Adversus Marcionem—applies
- Maximus et Balbinus—applies
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