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Alexander the Great

In Our Time

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I'm a Fan of Xenophon, but Not Everybody Es He Modelled Himself on Xenosonophon.

Historians always write influence by their own times and the things that are going on in their own cultur and society. Am but if i can add a word of, not necessarily support, but empathy for ancient historians. They're engaged in the same project that a lot of us as historians in the present day are. We work with secondary sources, and we build our own on ction of events based on that. And unfortunately, a lot of the primary sources from close to the date of alexandrigan survive. So we can hope or reconstruct in the hope that these historians have worked with these sources and used them. Well. Pon bitpall cardlidge, after persian

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