“For me, the historian's principal task should be to raise the dead to life.”
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter (2003)
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“The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.”
Sect. 39; vol. 2, p. 128; H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (trans.) The Works of Lucian of Samosata.
How to Write History
“So great the Task to raise the Roman State!”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
George Kubler summarizing the view of Meyer Schapiro (with whom he disagrees), quoted by Alpers in Lang, Berel (ed.), The Concept of Style, 1987, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, ISBN 0801494397
“He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers”
Variant: He just summoned the dead with coke and cheeseburgers
Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth
Source: Memory Wire (1987), Chapter 20 (p. 179)
“Why is it considered unbelievable among you that God raises up the dead?”
26:8
Acts of the Apostles
“Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?”
Source: Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour