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All history is post-literary by definition. To go back further is to visit myths and legends. Some of which are even perhaps something like true.
by User23 4y ago
All history is post-literary by definition. To go back further is to visit myths and legends. Some of which are even perhaps something like true.
- ChainOfFools 4y agoAnd the material record of course, it is the availability of access to written records that divides the historian from the archaeologist.
- User23 4y agoOne of my favorite works of fantasy is the Malazan Book of the Fallen which was written by an archeologist and it very much shows. I doubt there’s another series in which the word “potsherds” appears more frequently.