07-22-2006, 12:42 PM
Greetings,
(in answer to Conon's comment)
yes, I agree that any author writing with a historical perspective, needs to have thoroughly studied their subject/period and should use certified evidence.
However, not everyone is lucky enough to be able to afford, financially or physically, to travel to carry out further researches.
In that case, they have to rely on information gleaned from other publications, along with new evidence, integrated with theories of their own...
Not everything regarding Alexander, for instance, can be found in Cuneiform and not everybody has the ability to read it, as much as they may like to... the same can be said for ancient Greek or Macedonian :wink:
regards
Arthes
(in answer to Conon's comment)
yes, I agree that any author writing with a historical perspective, needs to have thoroughly studied their subject/period and should use certified evidence.
However, not everyone is lucky enough to be able to afford, financially or physically, to travel to carry out further researches.
In that case, they have to rely on information gleaned from other publications, along with new evidence, integrated with theories of their own...
Not everything regarding Alexander, for instance, can be found in Cuneiform and not everybody has the ability to read it, as much as they may like to... the same can be said for ancient Greek or Macedonian :wink:
regards
Arthes
Cristina
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The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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The Hoplite Association
[url:n2diviuq]http://www.hoplites.org[/url]
The enemy is less likely to get wind of an advance of cavalry, if the orders for march were passed from mouth to mouth rather than announced by voice of herald, or public notice. Xenophon
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