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Greco-Roman literary sources, such as the writings of Aristotle, Cicero, Herodotus, Livy, and Plutarch, must be used in accordance with WP:PRIMARY: editors may not analyze or synthesize material found in them. Editors must take care not to present the claims of such sources uncritically. Statements made by such sources should be clearly attributed to them, rather than presented as objective fact. An entire article, or large parts thereof, may not be based only on such sources. The weight given to one of these sources should be roughly proportional to its treatment in modern, published scholarship on the same subject, and this scholarship should be cited when possible. In some instances, old or public domain editions and translations of these sources will not reflect current scholarly readings or views.

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    2025

    		 Greco-Roman literary sources, such as the writings of Aristotle, Cicero, Herodotus, Livy, and Plutarch, must be used in accordance with WP:PRIMARY: editors may not analyze or synthesize material found in them. Editors must take care not to present the claims of such sources uncritically. Statements made by such sources should be clearly attributed to them, rather than presented as objective fact. An entire article, or large parts thereof, may not be based only on such sources. The weight given to one of these sources should be roughly proportional to its treatment in modern, published scholarship on the same subject, and this scholarship should be cited when possible. In some instances, old or public domain editions and translations of these sources will not reflect current scholarly readings or views. —