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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
Michael Rostovtzeff
Born: November 10, 1870
Died: October 20, 1952 (aged 81)
Bio: Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev was an ancient historian whose career straddled the 19th and 20th centuries and who produced important works on ancient Roman and Greek history. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Science.
Known for:
- Iranians & Greeks in South Russia (1922)
- Mystic Italy (1927)
- Caravan cities







