Re: crackpots
ON HISTORIANS
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The credibility of historians, even the best
among them, has been questioned by fellow
historians since the beginning of historiography.
Herodotus, “the father of historians,” has also
been called “the father of lies.” More recently,
Arnold J. Toynbee, one of the greatest historians
of the 20th Century, has been dismissed as “a
prophet of mumbo jumbo.” And consider the case of
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794): in his universally
acclaimed DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE,
he portrays Romans as the good guys and
Christians as the villains. To say that Armenian
historians are more trustworthy than Herodotus,
Gibbon, and Toynbee is to certify our status as
perennial dupes.
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ON HISTORIANS
*************************************
The credibility of historians, even the best
among them, has been questioned by fellow
historians since the beginning of historiography.
Herodotus, “the father of historians,” has also
been called “the father of lies.” More recently,
Arnold J. Toynbee, one of the greatest historians
of the 20th Century, has been dismissed as “a
prophet of mumbo jumbo.” And consider the case of
Edward Gibbon (1737-1794): in his universally
acclaimed DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE,
he portrays Romans as the good guys and
Christians as the villains. To say that Armenian
historians are more trustworthy than Herodotus,
Gibbon, and Toynbee is to certify our status as
perennial dupes.
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