The writers present their accounts of ancient events using comparisons to 18th and 19th century examples, which means, if you're not a student of those latter centuries, you won't understand what is being compared to what. Finally, almost all the personages and places mentioned, from the earliest on down, are given under their native or Latinized names at the time, whether they are Greek, Persian, German or whatever.
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