Farrington, Scott T., ed. Enthousiasmos: Essays in Ancient Philosophy, History, and Literature: Festschrift for Eckart Schütrumpf on His 80th Birthday. Baden-Baden, Germany: Academia, 2019., For more information on the...
I argue that Polybius demands that a central duty of the historian should be to employ rhetoric to determine which sources are credible, define the course of past events, and convince the reader that the resulting historical...