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This 8 page paper discusses the biases found in the works of Thucydides, Tacitus, Herodotus and Plutarch, and what the cause of these biases may be. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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sources that survive, and critics argue that such sources are not always unbiased. This paper discusses and illustrates the bias in ancient historical texts. Discussion The prompt for this paper
specifically mentions Tacitus, Thucydides, Herodotus and Plutarch, and what is intriguing about them is that all have been accused of being biased, but they are each biased in a different
way. Well begin with Tacitus and his description of Imperial Rome as revealed in the Annals. Tacituss bias appears to take the form of a virulent hatred of the emperors
of Rome. He begins his chronicle with a paragraph listing the various forms of government that ruled Rome until Augustus: "Rome at the beginning was ruled by kings. Freedom
and the consulship were established by Lucius Brutus. Dictatorships were held for a temporary crisis."1 He continues like this, explaining that most of the various types of government that came
to power only lasted a few years; he mentions the "despotisms of Cinna and Sulla" and the rule of "Pompeius and of Crassus" who "soon yielded before Caesar."2 He goes
on to mention Lepidus and Antonius who came before Augustus, who took the title of "Prince."3 He notes that many historians have written of the "old Roman people," as well
as the reign of Augustus, "till growing sycophancy scared them away."4 Already hes suggesting that the best minds to tell about the Roman rulers were not doing so. He goes
on to say that the histories of "Tiberius, Caius, Claudius, and Nero" if they were written while those men were in power, were false, because the authors feared being put
to death if the told the truth; and if they were written after the emperors death, they were also inaccurate because the authors hated the emperor and made the history
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