Status Updates From The Use and Abuse of History

Aristotle: ‘Poetry is more philosophical and more weighty than history, for poetry speaks rather of the universal, history of the particular. By theuniversalImeanthatsuchorsuchakindofmanwillsayordo such or such things from probability or necessity; that is the aim of poetry, adding proper names to the characters. By the particular I mean what Alcibiades did and what he suffered.