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Ancient Sources and Interpretation
Quick questions on Evaluating ancient sources - OCR Ancient History AO3 skills
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What is utility, not reliability?Show answer
This is the foundation of all source work in the course: utility for the enquiry is the question, and "bias" is not a verdict but a feature to be interpreted.
What is q1?Show answer
Why might a piece of imperial propaganda such as the Res Gestae be valuable evidence despite its bias? [10 marks, AO3 style]
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What three things do you use to judge an ancient source's utility for an enquiry? [2 marks]
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