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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6407660, member: 110504"]A self-quotation from last Wednesday, in this thread:</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/androgynous-ancients-beautiful-is-beautiful-so-whats-changed-in-the-last-2-500-years-my-1st-musa.374965/page-2#post-6334624" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/androgynous-ancients-beautiful-is-beautiful-so-whats-changed-in-the-last-2-500-years-my-1st-musa.374965/page-2#post-6334624">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/androgynous-ancients-beautiful-is-beautiful-so-whats-changed-in-the-last-2-500-years-my-1st-musa.374965/page-2#post-6334624</a> :</p><p>"Now I'm seriously interested in getting some idea of what <i>is</i> extant in primary literature for Elagabalus. And Roman historiography more generally. If Classical sources were as prone to bias as medieval ones were, it's like, Yikes; swiftly followed by, Condolences. ...Just, Dang, welcome to the club."</p><p>Of course, medieval historians have long supplemented, and inexorably revised, chronicles with legal documents. As I'm generous enough to acknowledge that you are aware (--don't thank me!), it's only recently that this has has expanded to numismatic and other archaeological evidence. I've been watching the steady increase of interdisciplinary approaches within the discipline over the last couple of decades, not only with approval, but excitement.</p><p>Thanks for noting that Sanders is in academia.edu.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6407660, member: 110504"]A self-quotation from last Wednesday, in this thread: [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/androgynous-ancients-beautiful-is-beautiful-so-whats-changed-in-the-last-2-500-years-my-1st-musa.374965/page-2#post-6334624[/URL] : "Now I'm seriously interested in getting some idea of what [I]is[/I] extant in primary literature for Elagabalus. And Roman historiography more generally. If Classical sources were as prone to bias as medieval ones were, it's like, Yikes; swiftly followed by, Condolences. ...Just, Dang, welcome to the club." Of course, medieval historians have long supplemented, and inexorably revised, chronicles with legal documents. As I'm generous enough to acknowledge that you are aware (--don't thank me!), it's only recently that this has has expanded to numismatic and other archaeological evidence. I've been watching the steady increase of interdisciplinary approaches within the discipline over the last couple of decades, not only with approval, but excitement. Thanks for noting that Sanders is in academia.edu.[/QUOTE]
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