Kyle Cummings - Outside Reading #3

I was working on a history paper the other day on which I had to analyze the validity of a historical account. I was working on a document by Lysias who was an ancient Greek speech writer. Lysias was very wealthy until the Thirty Tyrants took over Athens and drove out or killed all affluent foreigners. Lysias escaped but his brother did not, and when Lysias flew the region he lost all his wealth and status. Lysias was writing the speech a man was giving to defend his act of killing one of the Thirty Tyrants. In my analysis of the document I noted that Lysias likely fudged the truth and made it appear that the Tyrant was in the wrong and the defendant was right in killing him because it would have helped Lysias get back at the Tyrant for driving him out and killing his brother. This whole project had me thinking about historical accuracy in general and if I should trust modern historical documents and accounts of events that have past.