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user-inactivated  ·  3194 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the greatest work of history?

Really interesting. Contemporary western historians (mostly Roman) often wrote hagiography because they were afraid of exile. And then there's Procopius, who wrote like six complimentary books about Justinian, but also wrote a secret book about how fucked up he was which only showed up several hundred years after they died.