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<p>[QUOTE="Nathan B., post: 4554028, member: 112852"]At the risk of going in where angels fear to tread, especially in what it supposed to be an apolitical forum: I don't think his remark was justified.</p><p><br /></p><p>The line in question from the review is this:</p><p><br /></p><p>"The book's author, however, could not bring himself to confront his readers with the exciting and sometimes criminal lives of the people concerned."</p><p><br /></p><p>That ancient Greek rulers committed all sorts of atrocities is hardly something to get worked up about in connection with political correctness; ancient sources admit as much, after all. How is admitting their faults related to historical revisionism? If anything, it's the opposite. And what is the connection of this all to political correctness? I can't see any. (Having said that, I thought the reviewer's analogy with English professors also didn't make much sense.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Nathan B., post: 4554028, member: 112852"]At the risk of going in where angels fear to tread, especially in what it supposed to be an apolitical forum: I don't think his remark was justified. The line in question from the review is this: "The book's author, however, could not bring himself to confront his readers with the exciting and sometimes criminal lives of the people concerned." That ancient Greek rulers committed all sorts of atrocities is hardly something to get worked up about in connection with political correctness; ancient sources admit as much, after all. How is admitting their faults related to historical revisionism? If anything, it's the opposite. And what is the connection of this all to political correctness? I can't see any. (Having said that, I thought the reviewer's analogy with English professors also didn't make much sense.)[/QUOTE]
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