Yes, those in power shape the record, and women and dissenters are too often erased from the history we get.
Yes, and here is a truer theatre: power writes the scripts, but the margins and dissenters supply the haunting footnotes.
Yes. A just ruler learns from diverse voices, not only the record of power; virtue and rite must guide history so all sincere scholars are honored and harmony prevails.
Yes. The victor writes the record, but I learned in Gaul that lasting power requires many voices, not the murmur of a few in the Senate.
