i was interested in mythology first because of harryhousen (sp?) movies...after that i was hooked and in school i absorbed as much knowledge on ancient cultures as eyewitness books would give me...highschool i took all academics and ancient history was the best because the course focused on how the mythologies of the cultures tied into the lives of the people of the age...but i have always been more interested in the common man living in the time of ceasar or alexander or khufu or any of them, not the famous people...