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The lives of great men | Aleks Farrugia
The problem that ‘great’ men pose to the historian is that greatness begets mythology or, to be more exact, ‘mythistory’
12 July 2021, 7:30am
Former Prime Minister Dom Mintoff with his wife Moyra
That a historian is concerned with the life of a ‘great’ man is no historical innovation. If anything, modern historians have shifted their gaze towards the ‘lesser’ men and women, people who for a long time were neglected and considered ‘insignificant’ to the bigger scheme of History (with emphasis on the big H).
Take an example from our own history: we still speak of Gorg Borg Olivier “getting us independence” and of Mintoff as “the father of the nation” with little study, if any, of the people who actually supported them and made their achievements possible – say, the 51,000 Labour ‘suldati tal-azzar’ (‘soldiers of steel’) which, had it not been for their support and activism, Mintoff would have been as muc