Underrated? He literally wrote the book on the decline and fall of the Roman empire. Virtually every work of Roman history since has referenced him.
"The pagans were incensed at the rashness of a recent and obscure sect, which presumed to accuse their countrymen of error, and to devote their ancestors to eternal misery." – Gibbon
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"To say that the present United States is the historical counterpart of old Rome is too farfetched. To say that it will be extraordinarily like it in a hundred years is an intelligent probability." – William Bolitho, Twelve Against the Gods, 1929pic.twitter.com/YTwSenKCmL
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“All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.” ― Hypatia of Alexandriahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbuEhwselE0 …
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