Subject: RE: Autographs, MSS and REAL Historiography Re: Methods in biblical scholarship
Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 10:32:47 -0500
At 09:27 AM 12/29/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>> > [Niels Peter Lemche]
>> > This is hardly the relevant criterium here. Did Herodotus not have a
>> >clear purpose?
>> Sure. Pro-Greek propoganda. :)
> [Niels Peter Lemche] and Thucydides? Pro-Athenian propaganda,
>perhaps?
Sure. When I first read it I clearly felt 'positive' feelings towards them.
(Also I didn't have such a good view of democracy after that.)