[nicollo]

If by "history" we mean "written history," fine. Otherwise all the dude did was to write down oral history. And such is the problem with written history -- as Socrates said in Plato's "Phaedrus",

... for this discovery of yours [writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

Go find the latest Pulitzer history category winner and you'll see what So-Krates is getting at.

[SunkenCiv]

Plato was Socrates’ nickname for Aristocles. Good thing someone wrote that information down.