Can't believe I forgot to mention this...

During a discussion in my Alexander the Great class last Thursday (which is composed of both History and Classics students, of which I am one of the former), one of the history students held up his copies of Arrian and Plutarch and whined, "These things read like novels!"

To which our lovely teacher replied, "Yeah, welcome to ancient history."

Careful it doesn't hit your arse on the way out, idiot no-fun modern-historian. 

*hugs ancient history*

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Katiefoolery
Awwww, the poor things, having to read stuff as part of their history studies.

*whaps them*
Alankria
The point isn't that they have to read the books, it that the ancient histories are so filled with fanciful nonsense (rather than straight fact... and it's very difficult to tell the two apart) that they don't feel like a "real" history book. But they're our sources from the time and they tell us a lot more than people like this guy think. And, heck, they're far more fun than a dry textbook.

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