Saturday, February 25, 2023
Resemblances
Ronald Syme, "Biographers of the Caesars," in his Roman Papers, III (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 1251-1275 (at 1256):
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When different authors relate the same events, especially in narrations of warfare, resemblances cannot fail to emerge: in arrangement, in episodes, and even in language. There is a limit to variations. That is not always recognized by zealous adepts of 'Quellenforschung'.
