in thread "When does a people become "historical"? Can we achieve a Greek-like stance as Nietzsche believed late 19th C. Germans could?": Could war be an instance of "historicization" of peoples?... 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1 Could war be an inst (view hidden) retry 1 1 Good point. Historical consciousness seems to be inextricably linked to its linguistic formulation, whether oral or written. This leads me to believe that the historicity of a people depends largely on whether it is created deliberately by the political/in... 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 4 4 Good point. Historic (view hidden) retry 4 4 Similar to the case of Rome with Fabius Pictor. He writes in Greek one of the first Roman histories, forged in conflicts with the Gauls and Carthaginians. 3w ago (collapse hidden) retry 1 1 Similar to the case (view hidden) retry 1 1