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49 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 August 2007 07:52PM

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Comment author: lessdazed 22 September 2011 12:33:14PM 1 point [-]

always more action packed, meaningful, and moving than real life

It can try. Are you sure you're reading the right history?

Here is a sample about the beginning of the Peloponnesian War, it's just a page long, read it all.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 29 September 2011 04:07:34AM 0 points [-]

That was a good read, but I'm sure the fictionalized movie will be much more exciting. Art is about amplifying meaning and emotion.

Historical stories have an advantage in their association with real life, so that that story borrows meaning and significance from other stories and real consequences, but I don't know enough of the history to make a big difference here.