Ancient Greece Sources

• Herodotus' limitations are as follows: Lacked military knowledge, Used Greek oral tradition
• Tyrtaeus' limitations: Pro-Athenian bias, given Spartan citizenship, wrote heroic poems to inspire Spartans during the Messenian Wars- 8th century BC
• Aristotle limitations:

  Athenian bias and studied under Plato

  Used Herodotus and Thucydides

  Extreme political opinions- hated extreme democracy- called it "Mob rule"
• Xenophon Limitations: Pro-Athenian. Fought against Xerxes. Exiled athens and taken in by Spartan King. Witnesses and personality.
• Diodorus Siculus Limitations:

  Chronologically challenged.

  Refelcts pro-Athenian bias of sources he used.