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Dec 01, 2020
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King Darius I is listening to the speeches of his bodyguards (Paris, BnF, Français 1753 f.130v)

Based on their works, ancient and medieval historians were closer to modern documentary-makers than to professional historians. What mattered most for them was not methodology, reliability of information and discoverable fact, but the mise-en-scène of all of i…

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