The fights over the record
5 readings curated · hand-seeded marquee fights · a fight missing here is a fact about the store, not about the centuries
History's readers have never left the record alone: Plutarch prosecuted Herodotus, Valla took a forged empire apart clause by clause, Niebuhr severed Rome's poetry from Rome's history, and the commentaries referee it all. Each room below serves one sustained reading — the reader's own words receipted, and where the struck passage is served, it stands beside the blow.
How & Wells refereeing Herodotus — 1912
W. W. How & J. Wells reading Herodotus of Halicarnassus, The Histories
Niebuhr against the legend of early Rome — 1811–32; Hare & Thirlwall translation, new edition 1851–60
Barthold Georg Niebuhr reading Livy, The History of Rome (the early books)
Plutarch against Herodotus — 1st–2nd century CE
Plutarch of Chaeronea reading Herodotus of Halicarnassus, The Histories
Rawlinson defending Herodotus — essays first published 1858–60; 2nd ed. 1862
George Rawlinson reading Herodotus of Halicarnassus, The Histories
Valla exposing the Donation of Constantine — 1440; Coleman translation, Yale 1922
Lorenzo Valla reading The Donation of Constantine (Constitutum Constantini)
The record here: 166 works · 12,119 episodes served · a reception entry asserts that a named reader read the record this way — never that the reading is right
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