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« on: December 16, 2012, 02:41:24 PM »
Classical historians don't have much to do with what history as a profession has been for the last 200 years.  Thucydides is a pretty great writer, though, and I wouldn't dismiss him...I'd just say he's closer to being the father of historical fiction than father of history.

Herodotus is simply lucky that he was the first person to name his book Historia.
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