Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Personally I'm inclined to lean towards the range set by the ancient sources because, you know, first hand sources vs. tenth hand analysis. Every decade or so there's a new article that comes out that finds that ancient sources were actually right about something after all, from Schliemann actually finding Troy on down to Herodotus's gold-digging giant ants.



But I also havent' read any of the articles by the modern scholars explaining why they think the numbers are really so much smaller. Maybe the eggheads are right after all.