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No Dumb Questions

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The Battle of Marathon

"I'm team Persia for a few reasons. I don't buy Herodotus's account But I do but I don't He's not holding himself out as a modern historian," he says. "He's not doing this cold sterile Safe version of history where he gets into the minutiae of these boring little details and Restrains from any speculation about motivation." The Persians were built to whip everything else, but they weren't built to whip that That matters so much.

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