Abstract

The Fathers of History were Greeks. Historians of antiquity are very proud of that, so much so that they prefer not to remember that some of the best minds in antiquity were not all impressed by this achievement. History as a discipline has always been a great favorite with the coiners of bons mots it is false, it is dangerous, it is bunk. But it has never been dismissed more peremptorily, in a serious way, than in the f amous dictum in the ninth chapter of Aristotle's Poetics:

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