Serie : Annals of economics and statistics. Vol 101-102
Paru le 07/12/2011 | Broché 360 pages
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"... the Greeks themselves also used to write, in the beginning, just like our Cato, Pictor and Piso. For history began as a mere compilation of annals, on which account, and in order to preserve the general traditions, from the earliest period of the City down to the pontificate of Publius Mucius, each High Priest used to commit to writing all the events of his year of office, and record them on a white surface, and post up the tablet at his house, that all men might have liberty to acquaint themselves therewith, and to this day those records are known as the Pontifical Chronicles. A similar style of writing has been adopted by many who, without any rhetorical ornament, have left behind them bare records of dates, personalities, places and events. In this sense Pherecydes, Hellanicus, Acusilas, and very many others among the Greeks, correspond to our own Cato, Pictor and Piso, who do not understand the adornment of composition - since it is only of late that decoration of that sort has been brought into this country - and, so long as their narrative is understood, regard coneiseness as the historian's single merit."
