See it, say it, save it for later

Eyewitness historiography as the visceral authority of presence

A pair of Greek eyes inlaid with bronze, marble, frit, quartz, and obsidian, designed to be added to an over-lifesize statue, 5th century BC, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Picture the ancient Greek historian Thucydides – of trap fame –, exiled from Athens and trudging through the Peloponnesian battlefields, notebook in hand.

Or Pol…