Abstract
A traditional historiographical trope which opposes the mythologically mired Herodotus and the rational and objective Thucydides belies the poetic origins of history and consciousness. History needs to take the interpretive turn that the other human sciences, such as sociology and cultural anthropology, have taken that seeks to understand human actions from the perspective of the agents performing them, not by reference to some allegedly more fundamental or objective cause - a mythical pursuit in itself.