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Old 09-25-2002, 07:57 PM   #12
Aelia Jusa
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Join Date: August 23, 2001
Location: Brisbane, Australia
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I agree Moni! I think with anything you learn the person teaching makes all the difference, but history especially. And reading primary texts! This is so crucial, especially in ancient history. History at school was awful, textbooks are terrible! At uni we have to read the primary sources, Plutarch, Thucydides, Herodotus, Tacitus, makes it so much more interesting to know you're reading something written at the time or shortly after, that for centuries has been read and interpreted and translated. After all, textbooks are based on primary sources, may as well go directly there and form your own opinions rather than read the opinions of someone else [img]smile.gif[/img]
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