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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.
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Lucian recommended instead the virtues of clear narration, and the valorisation of truth. He argued that the historian should write for all times, as “a free man, fearless, incorruptible, the friend of truth”; and held up the work of
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as the legislative template for all subsequent historians. He argued that the "historian's sole task is to tell the tale as it happened" which is latter reflected in works of
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The early Renaissance saw the essay taken up by figures like
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Index

Ancient Greek
Syrian
Lucian
Thucydides
von Ranke
Guarino da Verona
Giovanni Pontano
Edward Gibbon
Anneus Florus
A True History
Polybius
The Oxford Handbook of the Second Sophistic
doi
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199837472.013.26
ISBN
978-0-19-983747-2
Lucian and Historiography
Butcher, S. H.
Harvard Lectures on Greek Subjects
249
Internet Archive
Butcher, S. H.
Harvard Lectures on Greek Subjects
250
Internet Archive
The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Complete with exceptions specified in the preface
Fowler, H. W.
Fowler, F. G.
109
"How to Write History"

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