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Do you have a source for this?

• YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
  It's true. Just read any hisoty source for any historical period before modern times. See how many accounts you can find about the lives of "common people", which usually means slaves, serfs, etc. Even in modern times, you hear about Churchill or Lincoln, but where are the stories of the carpenters, or farmers, the milk maids or the nurses, the midwives or the factory workers? Who remembers their names, what they achieved, what they held dear, who they loved and married, and how they died? Most of hisotry is about the people that hold all the power in their hands and most of the time their great deeds is to crush everyone else underfoot. We learn the dates and placenames of the great battles where king so-and-so defeated king such-and-such, but do we ever hear the names of the hundreds or thousands of their men who left their families and land to go and die a sad, senseless death?
  • 1123581321 5y ago
    This is eloquent but silly. There is a lot of good research, and popular accounts of it, on the effects of population-level status and trends on historical events. Given the article topic I would suggest starting with Property and Wealth in Classical Sparta. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1905125305?tag=fivebooks001-20 https://www.amazon.com/dp/1905125305?tag=fivebooks001-20
    • YeGoblynQueenne 5y ago
      Instead I suggest you start with the primary sources like Thucydides, Plutarch, Xenophon, Plato and Aristotle. I sure have and I don't need to read k'th- hand accounts, for large k, like the one you suggest.