"The problem is ... that too many ancient texts have been translated through the prism of modern morality."
http://77square.com/arts/books/story_305289
"Classical antiquity is a construct of modern scholarship," says Ruck. "We've made them into something they weren't really. Scholarship has chipped away at it. Suddenly, after the feminist movement, people became aware that women had a strange role in [ancient] society. There are frescos showing people having opium parties. [Classicists] don't want to admit Greeks had this kind of experience."
http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=24178
Exemplar 20th Century construct of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Imperator & Augustus:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02109a.htm
Thomas W. Africa, "The Opium Addiction of Marcus Aurelius", Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 22.1 (1961) pp. 97-102
Edward Witke, "Marcus Aurelius and Mandragora", Classical Philology, Vol. 60.1 (1965), pp. 23-24 )
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