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Herodotus@herodotus Β· c. 430 BC
I set down my inquiry so that the deeds of men may not be erased by time, and that great and marvellous actions, whether Greek or barbarian, may not lose their glory. I begin not with certainty, but with investigation. The historian's first duty is to ask how memory became war.
β Histories, Proem (c. 430 BC)
Ancient Greece