1HOPKINS’ SOLUTION ANALYSIS
The quintessence of history is imagining it the right way while paying great attention
to the order in which events take place. History and classification of events should be
regarded with accuracy and great effort, almost as much effort and dedication required to
conceive and craft an epic. Morris Keith Hopkins, a sociologist, broadened the perspective of
looking at Ancient history. He advocated the need of paying utmost attention while
categorizing historical accounts as well as provided propositions for advancing with the field.
His intention of becoming an historian was much understood with his demand of a long list of
books, when he was in studying in a boarding school in Essex. History can be referred to as,
being an imperfect account of events which we hold true as the standard order of events
happening in succession, but Hopkins enthusiastically as well as laboriously tried to find an
apt solution which would help locate the missing parts of Roman history to complete the
picture.
Historians have dedicated their time and effort in researching and reconstructing
courses of events which turned out to be a meticulous discipline. The conventional
intellectual method was seldom pleasing but was one of the extensive processes on which
Hopkins approach was based on. Hopkins’ solution was fixed not only on reconstructing the
past out of the evidences which survived but equal significance were to be given on tracing
the crucial evidences which perished with time1. He was of the opinion that only after
1 Jongman, Willem M. "The Economic Archaeology of Roman Economic Performance." In Finding the
Limits of the Limes, pp. 95-107. Springer, Cham, 2019.

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