Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Herodotus vs. Thucydides.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/s/sept_11_2001/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=September%2011&st=cse

The NY Times is an example of Thucydides style of writing

Herodotus was not a good source to look form. He had believed in anything that had been told to him. Thucydides spend a lot of time gathering and researching the information given to him.

Herodotus style of writing would have been like this: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/opinion/08bryce.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

The opinion page anyone can post in it with out any knowledge on the subject. This form of writing

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