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Does the toughness of peoples play any role in history? How can historians deal with such an amorphous human quality? Historiography, boxing, barbarians, philosophy and wisdom are among the subjects touched upon
Dan’s research and book list
1. Anabasis by Xenophon
2. Cyropaedia by Xenophon
3. Our Oriental Heritage by Will Durant
4. Warfare in Antiquity by Hans Delbruck
5. A History of the Ancient World by Chester G. Starr
6. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
7. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
8. The Histories by Herodotus
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