History is not like something like math. It's something that can have potentially many

right answers and many different perspectives and many different ways to look at things.

And what that means is sometimes when you're taking a tour through the past, the guide

that you have at the time is key. And you can take the same tour multiple times. But

if you have a different guide, they'll point out different things, emphasize different

things. How often have you read two different books on the same historical event and gotten

different perspectives? The perspective of the storyteller matters. Whether you like

history or not, if you care about things like bravery and wisdom and passion and larger

than life characters and some of the most emotionally intense moments in the human experience,

you've come to the right place and a chance to get a perspective from a different kind of

historical tour guide. Daniela Belelli is a university history professor, a writer, a martial artist,

a philosopher, and it provides a very different sort of tour guide through the past

than you normally encounter. And this tour he'll be your guide in a journey to the place where

history and epic collide.

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