Title: Flawed at best
Product review: In chapter one the problems start, for instance the messenger after the battle of Marathon again dies after his 26 miles and 385 yards, it did not happen, I am no scholar and I know better, so what else is wrong? There is also the problem, still in the first chapter, of time. Maybe a better educated person than myself could sort this out but I do not know enough to get past the errors. Strathern has Thales alive and calculating eclipses in 585BC, then one century later it is the 5th century and we are hearing about Leucippus.A person with a firm grasp of history might enjoy this book but too many errors and too many value judgments left me baffled and unsatisfied.
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