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The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it. - F.W. Maitland History is the transformation of tumultuous conquerors into silent footnotes. -Paul Eldridge Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is...

And some more I found: All history is contemporary history. Benedetto Croce (1941) History is a myth we all agree to believe. -Napoleon "The past is a place of fantasy." - Hayden White

Lolol!! It's a bit like this one: The past is never dead. It's not even past. William Faulkner

I am well aware that I have not written anything but fictions… which is not to say they have nothing to do with the truth. - Michel Foucault There is no history, only fictions of varying degrees of plausibility. - Voltaire There is no history, only histories. - Karl Popper

Here are some of my favourites - add more! That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons history has to teach. - Aldous Huxley All history is contemporary history. - Benedetto Croce Those who have no knowledge of what has gone...

A few senators took part in the Pisonian conspiracy; many supported Nero. From Miriam Griffin, Nero: The cast of characters included senators, equites, praetorian tribunes, centurions and eventually one of the Prefects… The plan was modelled closely on that of the murder of Caesar: the...

This looks OK for a starter: http://www.crystalinks.com/greekgeography.html I would google using "ancient greece" and geography as the terms (keep the quote marks).

Add this, from E.T. Salmon The Roman World: 30 BC to AD 138 (though he does not refer to it as a "Third Settlement"): In the year 18 BC Augustus for the first time specifically named a successor by making Agrippa his partner in the Tribunician Power. The Imperium Proconsulare probably...

1. Murder cannot be proved… The strain of his dispute with Agrippina II over the future of Britannicus may have brought on the heart attack that one modern scholar has diagnosed. But the death toll by judicial murder was already high, and on balance it looks like Claudius’ departure was...

You're quite right: normally it was the power of a censor that was used to hold a census. The issue arises over the wording of Res Gestae 8: 8. When I was consul the fifth time (29 B.C.E.), I increased the number of patricians by order of the people and senate. I read the roll of the senate...

Here's a quote from Southern: "...it is usually pointed out that he had relinquished far too much in 23 by giving up the consulship because because the tribunicia potestas and proconsular imperium could not compensate for all that he had lost, so it was merely the logical outcome that he should...

Octavian was granted the name "Augustus" in January 27 BC, almost certainly on the 16th - see Pat Southern's discussion in "Augustus", p114 based on Res Gestae, Suetonius and Cassius Dio. Syme is good on the connotations of the name (Roman Revolution). There is a debate about what happened in...

You do not refer to secondary sources just to "name drop". That scores no marks at all. You refer to them for some interpretation they have made that supports or qualifies or contrasts with or illuminates in some way the line of argument you are presenting in your essay to answer the set...

I'm not saying you can't quote her. You can quote Fred Flintstone if you want. I'm just asking, what point would you be making in your answer by quoting Pamela Bradley? How is she groundbreaking or of interest in any point of interpretation? It's not as if she has any particular interest for her...

You use secondary sources like Bradley on points of interpretation. The only reason to use them is when they have a distinct line of interpretation. I wonder how Bradley fits in here. She is hardly known for her research or scholarship. What exactly does she have to say or contribute to a...

What topics are you doing?

These books are good & pretty state-of-the-art. Get your teacher to order them for the library if they're not already there: 1. Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum Andrew Wallace-Hadrill...

It depends on the topic (essay question) and the line your essay is taking on it. Your opening sentence should 1. Refer to the key terms (or issues) of the question (including the HSC verb), if possible in your own words 2. Indicate the line you are taking on the question The rest of...

Second attempt... It's telling me file too large - limit is 91 kb - this file is 220 kb - if u want it post an email & I'll send.

Careful with that axe, Eugene.... http://www.pinkfloydfan.net/t322.html