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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 8079891, member: 19463"]<a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/" rel="nofollow">https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/</a></p><p>I assume you are aware of her blog. She has no fear of controversy. I recall her pointing out once that ancient sources were colored by the biases of their authors so were not to be accepted at face value. At the same time, she noted that modern writers include their own biased life experience making them similarly flawed. I was once told that no history could be written without biases as long as there was anyone left alive who experienced it first hand. I always believed that the timing was off a bit, at least 5000 years (5 million?). Coins are instruments of propaganda, too. In many cases that makes them more interesting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 8079891, member: 19463"][URL]https://www.the-tls.co.uk/categories/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/[/URL] I assume you are aware of her blog. She has no fear of controversy. I recall her pointing out once that ancient sources were colored by the biases of their authors so were not to be accepted at face value. At the same time, she noted that modern writers include their own biased life experience making them similarly flawed. I was once told that no history could be written without biases as long as there was anyone left alive who experienced it first hand. I always believed that the timing was off a bit, at least 5000 years (5 million?). Coins are instruments of propaganda, too. In many cases that makes them more interesting.[/QUOTE]
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