Quote of the Day

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“Livy accepted a tradition going back to Aristotle (especially in the Rhetoric) and to Thucydides which explained historical events by the characters of the persons involved. As Aristotle said, ‘actions are signs of character’. Because people are the sort of people that they are, they do the sort of things that they do, and the job of the historian is to relate what happens to the appropriate character. ”

Introduction, by R.M. Ogilvie. 1971.
Titus Livy. “The Early History of Rome.”