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Source Analysis
There are a number of sources that we can use to discover about the ancient world, such as Plutarch (shown far left) and Livy (shown near left). These are both examples of authors who were writing a lot closer to the time of events than modern scholars and authors but may have nneded to rely on their own sources, many of which are lost to us today; other examples of authors like these are Cassius Dio, Arrian and Homer.