Sima Qian · Civilisations
Sima Qian’s great innovation - making the biography of individuals the heart of history, and creating a gallery of human lives of every kind that brings the past vividly alive.
You learned that Sima Qian made biography central to history, portraying individuals of every kind. Explain what this conception of history offers, and one limit of it, in your own words.
Leads to Plutarch.
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