You can read whatever you like but should strive to find out whether it is/was factual (assuming non-fiction). When it comes to Cultural/Social/Historical accou

You can read whatever you like but should strive to find out whether it is/was factual (assuming non-fiction). When it comes to Cultural/Social/Historical accounts of any Civilization this becomes even more important since so much has been lost and hence needs to be rediscovered/recreated. Nothing is simple and homogeneous but interpretations, point-of-view, agency all matter. When the "West" discovered the "alien East", partial knowledge, romanticization, Social/Cultural Darwinism were the coloured lenses through which they interpreted everything. Thus all accounts were necessarily incomplete and distorted but once they were written down became "gospel". This is why "Historical Revisionism" (in the positive sense) is so important nowadays.