{"id":35833,"date":"2026-10-26T09:45:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35833"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:45:23","slug":"from-the-durant-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/26\/from-the-durant-12\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Durant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Life of Greece<\/em>, page 8:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If now we try to restore this buried culture from the relics that remain&#8211;playing Cuvier to the scattered bones of Crete&#8211;let us remember that we are engaging upon a hazardous kind of historical television, in which imagination must supply the living continuity in the gaps of static and fragmentary material artificially moving but long since dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I read this several years ago, but I&#8217;ve recently started a poem almost with that conceit\/metaphor&#8211;looking at history as television.  However, I&#8217;m having trouble with the turn in the poem, so it&#8217;s languishing on the top pages of the pad in my folder.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s good to see a historian offer this perspective on history, although in most of Durant&#8217;s work he (and they) is (are) very comfortable with speaking authoritatively where it might not be warranted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Life of Greece, page 8: If now we try to restore this buried culture from the relics that remain&#8211;playing Cuvier to the scattered bones of Crete&#8211;let us remember that we are engaging upon a hazardous kind of historical television, in which imagination must supply the living continuity in the gaps of static and fragmentary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-durant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35834,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35833\/revisions\/35834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}