Michael Rostovtzeff Quotes

• We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.

  Michael Rostovtzeff

  Writing, Helping, Archaeology

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• For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.

  Michael Rostovtzeff

  Independent, Illustration, Historical

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• For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

  Michael Rostovtzeff

  War, Long, Political

  Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff (1928). “A history of the ancient world”

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