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Review title: Read the Greeks
Product review: Given the sources for this material I see no reason to let Kagan filter the original material to the reader. In my opinion, he makes the traditional error of supposing the ancient Greeks were just older versions of ourselves. Herodotus may have pulled our legs sometimes but he did show that they were in reality very different from ourselves. I see this problem everywhere in Greek scholarship. Especially in the works targeted to the general public. It is hard to beat reading Thucydides and Xenophon and the others for ourselves.
