Showing posts with label Function of History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Function of History. Show all posts
Friday, January 16, 2009
Quote of the Day (Tacitus, on “History’s Highest Function”)
“This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.”— Gaius Cornelius Tacitus (ca. 55 AD-ca. 120 AD), Annals, Book 3
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