AS Level Ancient History Authors
Each author used in AS Level Ancient History that I have listed below has the dates they lived/wrote, what they wrote, a positive and a weakness.
This is to help others remember what each author wrote about when needing to write about reliability etc.
The 'timeline' of authors begins with Tyrtaeus
- Created by: AncientApple3
- Created on: 11-02-14 20:00
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- AS Level Ancient History Authors
- Tyrtaeus
- Epic Poetry
- 685 BC - 668 BC
- Wrote about War
- Twelve fragments of his poetry left.
- Herodotus
- 484BC - 425BC
- Histories
- Only source on Thermopylae
- Known to exaggerate
- Thucydides
- 460 BC - 404BC
- History of the Peloponn-esian War
- Detailed information about the Pelopon-nesian War
- Positive view of Brasidas - because he defeated him
- Aristophanes
- 456BC - 386BC
- Lysistrata
- Gives an Athenian view
- Changes truth to get a reaction fro the audience
- Xenophon
- 430BC - 335BC
- Has inside knowledg-e on Sparta
- The Spartan Constitut-ion
- Positive view of Sparta - due to Xenophon depending on them financially
- Diodorus
- 1st Century BC
- The Athenian Empire
- Referenced to works by other authors who's work is now lost
- Uses sources uncritically and not named
- Plutarch
- 46BC - 120CE (AD)
- Detailed sources
- Life of Lycurgus
- Exaggerated detail because he is writing biographies
- Tyrtaeus
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