Apart from his unhistorical approach, Livy has also been attacked for failing to be critical of his sources, particularly Roman annalists. |
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As annalists, tabulators of losses and gains, commentators on the future of states and societies, we emphasise its first sense too heavily. |
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Still, Gracchan annalists have produced interesting insight into the writer's own time, if not necessarily into the time on which they wrote. |
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The history it tells is not only that witnessed by its compilers, but also that recorded by earlier annalists, whose work is in many cases preserved nowhere else. |
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Frankish annalists of the 8th century often refer to Danish kings. |
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Sallust and Tacitus are fair examples of Gracchan Annalists. |
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