Greek History Its Problems And Its Meaning With Appendices On the Authorities
Greek History Its Problems And Its Meaning With Appendices On the Authorities
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Yet the writer who passes them over without mention thinks it worth while to devote more than one-sixth of an entire book to a chronicle of the unimportant feats of the citizens of the petty state of Phlius. Nor is any attempt made to appraise the policy of the great Theban leaders, Pelopidas and Epaminondas. The former, indeed, is mentioned only in a single passage, relating to the embassy to Susa in 368 ; the latter does not appear on the scene till a year later, and receives mention but twic...e before the battle of Mantinea. An author who omits from his narrative some of the most im- portant events of his period, and elaborates the por- traiture of an Agesilaus while not attempting the bare outline of an Epaminondas, may be honest ; he may even write without a consciousness of bias ; he 123 THE AUTHORITIES. certainly cannot rank among the great writers of history.^ Diodorus. For the history of the 4th century Diodorus assumes a higher degree of importance than belongs to him in the earlier periods.
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