[LenS]

Suspicious of the very unanimity of the ancient sources, modern scholars have suggested they could have been politically biased.

Gee, so if the ancient sources had all disagreed, then modern scholars would feel better? Man, postmodernism has really rotted the brains of historians.

[wildbill]

You got it! I'm working on a MA in history and you find that all the modern historical work is based on tearing down everything we previously "knew" about history.

While there may be some truth to someof the fanciful propositions that are put forth by academics, my own theory is that some of the "new wave" is simply driven by the need to have something new to prove in a thesis or dissertation. All the easy and familiar stuff has been done. To make a name for oneself, you have to find something new or a new slant on something old, the more outrageous the better.