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Old 05-19-2009, 02:57 PM   #11
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I have to stick up for Thucydides here. His history of the Athens/Sparta war is an amazing story. Yes, it's a very long tale, because it was a very long war. He invented "military history" as a genuine discipline for goodness's sake, written by a general who was a participant, and yet who kept a very objective analytical perspective. Give the man some credit :-)
Well, yeah, but when you hate Greek to begin with and you're translating it...it starts to burn. At least Xenophon was easy.

Plus Greeks bore me. Give me my crazy Romans
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