
An Interview with Classicist and Military Historian Barry Strauss
The Victor Davis Hanson Show
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Are You Writing for a Larger Audience?
I started out thinking i was going to become a roman historian. I grew up in a very heavily italian american part of brooklyn, always felt identified some with italy. My father was a soldier in the us Army, a machine gunner in roldbor in italy. He spent time in italy after the war. So iris had a passion for italy as well as greece. And see brings kind of a scholarly rigour, but without, you know, not ostentatiously. It's just the right mixture.
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