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Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern by Ernst Breisach
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“Such action proved easy, since neither the populace nor the demagogues ever needed to take responsibility for consequences that were unwanted.”
Ernst Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
“Thucydides, distrusting the clever oratory in the popular assembly, saw a frustrated populace gullibly following those orators who promised solutions which at first sight were pleasant but eventually disastrous. Both”
Ernst Breisach, Historiography: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern