The one significant element that is missing when looking at modern accounts of the region are the Sarts.

Typically modern accounts of his life go something like this:

He is the old-time minstrel man turned to modern account.

An early classic, against which many modern accounts have reacted.

For that matter, modern accounts occasionally create the same problem.

A modern account of sexual selection would run something like this.

Most modern historical accounts of Livia's life discount the idea.

In modern accounts they are often ignored as a separate people.

This was extensively debated and is followed in some modern accounts.