Английская Википедия:How to Write History

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Шаблон:Italic title How to Write History is the title of a study by the classical Syrian[1] writer Lucian, which may be considered the only work on the theory of history-writing to survive from antiquity.[2]

Themes

The first part of Lucian’s essay involved a critical attack on contemporary historians. Lucian maintained that they confused history with panegyric, overloaded it with irrelevant details, and weighed it down with overblown rhetoric.[3]

Lucian recommended instead the virtues of clear narration, and the valorisation of truth.[4] He argued that the historian should write for all times, as “a free man, fearless, incorruptible, the friend of truth”;[5] and held up the work of Thucydides as the legislative template for all subsequent historians.[6] He argued that the "historian's sole task is to tell the tale as it happened" which is latter reflected in works of von Ranke among others.

Later influence

  • Edward Gibbon, who wrote of “the inimitable Lucian”, owned the 1776 edition of Quomodo Historia Conscribenda Sit (Oxford)[8]

See also

References

Шаблон:Reflist

External links

Шаблон:Lucian

  1. Шаблон:Cite book
  2. Lucian and Historiography
  3. Шаблон:Cite book
  4. M Winkler, Fall of the Roman Empire (2012) p. 181-2
  5. Шаблон:Cite book
  6. P J Rhodes, Intro, Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War (OUP 2009) p. l
  7. D Marsh, Lucian and the Latins (1998) p. 29
  8. E Gibbon, Abridged Decline and Fall (Penguin 2005) p. 63 and p. 782