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On Thracians
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Desdichado
Hero
Rockin'! Now, if we only we could find texts in their language, we'd be all set!
Ankh-Morpork Guard
First Post
Very cool. Though I have to wonder why we rely heavily on the Greek for information about other civilizations of the time...to them, it seems like anything not Greek were just "Savage barbarians". 
Desdichado
Hero
Because the Greeks actually wrote stuff down, which was more than anyone else in the region can say they did. We wouldn't know anything at all about the Thracians if it wasn't for the Greeks.Ankh-Morpork Guard said:Though I have to wonder why we rely heavily on the Greek for information about other civilizations of the time...to them, it seems like anything not Greek were just "Savage barbarians".
Besides, the Greeks were actually pretty good at being objective in their histories. Much more so than, say, the Assyrians or the Egyptians, for example. Theucydides is the father of historicity, after all.
the Jester
Legend
That's a very interesting article. I love civilizations who have had their history lost when we slowly start to unearth it again.
