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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 1831674, member: 5682&quot;]Youth brings with it a new perspective to any field. I read a lot of books and articles about Ancient Rome.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The authors from the 50s and 60s were obviously brilliant and thoughtful...but god awful difficult to read and...boring. Quoting long passages without translations in Latin and Ancient Greek are worthless to me (and I assume to most modern readers).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>More recent authors (many of whom are many years younger than I am!) make Ancient history accessible even to a dolt like me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Take a brilliant young writer like Adrian Goldsworthy:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Goldsworthy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Goldsworthy" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Goldsworthy</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Without the input and fresh perspectives of some of the younger writers, the study of Ancient history will die and the fascinating stories of those men and women who faced the challenges of day-to-day life in the Ancient world with fade from memory.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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