DAVID MAYERNIK
LTD.

Readers were meant to analyze these [narratives], in order to equip themselves with the prudence needed in the active life, and then to emulate or avoid emulating the actions they depicted when faced with similar circumstances.

At some level every culture asserts a view of history that fits its self-perception. And for some time there has been a strong undercurrent of suspicion of history’s value as model or lesson.