Originally Posted by Far-L

Most everything written about the ancient greeks is based on a few texts that survived the dark ages, burning of library at Alexandria, etc., so you are saying Russians have source material to work with that is different than those I have mentioned? That definitely would be news to me. What ancient texts and archeological record that survived the ages are they privy to that the rest of the world is missing out on? You could say that is true of the perception of Philip and Alexander and the Macedonian's exploits but only so much survives from a hundred to five hundred to a few thousand years preceeding that... Herodatus and Thucydides are not called "fathers of history" for nothing...


(yes I do realize the absurdity of a historical debate on gfy... that is what makes it so fun...)