Diamandopoulos Athanasios, Skarpelos Andreas
Renal Department, Saint Andrew's Regional Hospital, Patras, Greece.
J Nephrol. 2004 Jul-Aug;17(4):590-9.
It is a traditional practice to divide history in two main categories. First, Great History, that is the important events, such as wars, revolutions, conquests, that shaped our world during the past centuries. Secondly, Minor History, that is events in the lives of important persons, gossips at the Courts, trivial coincidences, that made people wonder and discuss them. The division, although generally accepted, is not clear cut, and there is a huge overlap between the two categories. In this article, we present a particular group of data from the second category, renal problems of illustrious personalities from Ancient Greek and Byzantine eras that, in many cases, influenced the outcome of Great History.
将历史分为两大类是一种传统做法。第一类是大历史，即重要事件，如战争、革命、征服，这些事件在过去几个世纪塑造了我们的世界。第二类是小历史，即重要人物生活中的事件、宫廷流言、琐碎巧合，这些让人们感到好奇并加以讨论。这种划分虽然普遍被接受，但并不清晰，而且这两类之间有很大的重叠。在本文中，我们呈现了第二类中的一组特殊数据，即古希腊和拜占庭时代杰出人物的肾脏问题，在许多情况下，这些问题影响了大历史的结果。
