Koskinas: Ancient Greek history is distorted by an Athenocentric bias
Aristotle Koskinas · Aristotle Koskinas on Greek History · Jan 5, 2017 · at 34:04
Archaeologist Aristotle Koskinas explains how surviving historical texts skew modern understanding toward Athenian culture rather than broader Greek antiquity.
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“Because most of the history of Greece was written by Athenians, or by people who were living in Athens, or they were writing about. Athens. It's an Athenocentric perspective that we get about ancient Greek history.”
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