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I am determined to fix this article. I am not a classics scholar, but I am familiar with Ancient Greek history and I can write. It will take some time, but I do intend to completely rewrite this article. As of 11 July 2015, I am about half way through. Constructive feedback and improvements on my
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I didn't put this explanation in the history because I keep forgetting that if you say Review my changes and then hit ok you don't get the description prompt. Knowledge ought to change this. Anyway, saying "According to Plutarch" or a similar phrase twenty six times in a shortish article sounds
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The antecedents in this article are very difficult, specifically, after the semicolon in the sentence starting "In his youth..." I am very confused. Then was it Dion banished? The next paragraph refers to "The philosopher" which is still unclear. This article needs work in basic readability.
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awkward and makes it hard to read. Since Plutarch is in the citations, we don't have to keep putting his name in the text in almost every sentence. If anyone wants to put any of these back in the text, please do so only where it's really needed.
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I've bookmarked it to come back to and edit when I have more time; I'm using Plutarch's Dion for part of my PhD. At the very least I can clean up the errors on Dion's career.
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Indeed. The author of most of the text does not seem very skilled in writing English---there are many errors and obscurities, only a few of which I have corrected.
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This entire article needs rewriting by a Classical scholar. It is by some margin the worst piece I have come across on Knowledge.
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