Stupidest things you have ever seen written (about ancient history)

[jirisys]

...Lorica Segmentata.

On a camillan trairii.

Really.. My eyes burn on those shows. At least asterix's passable cause it's a comic.

~Jirisys ()

[vartan]

I don't know about you guys but if I'm getting paid to work as a history consultant, and my advice isn't taken seriously but rather twisted, I could care less. Puts the bread on the table, so to speak. Peoples should grow their critical analytical skills in order not to take silly exhibitions at face value.

[jirisys]

I don't know about you guys but if I'm getting paid to work as a history consultant, and my advice isn't taken seriously but rather twisted, I could care less. Puts the bread on the table, so to speak. Peoples should grow their critical analytical skills in order not to take silly exhibitions at face value.

You're welcome for the idea.

Problem is when things are not supposed to be silly... Oh the madness/sparta

~Jirisys ()

[Lazy O]

I dont think you can put 300(the parody) in this category,it was purely fictional and meant for entertainment. The 300 Spartans however was utter bt.

[Andronikos]

Many of those myths, like those that were created sometimes in romanticism which connect modern nations to absolutely unrelated ancient cultures and claim to be their descendants. Yes, perhaps these myths had some use in that era, but nowadays we need more critical approach to history. For example, some of the top are: as I come from Slavic country, I have read many claims that Slavs lived in antiquity where they live today, that they were by far the most developed people in the world (they had everything from advanced metallurgy, wireless communication - because no cables have been excavated to warp powered spaceships , come on, yes we Slavs are awesome and so we don't need this crap), that migrations are false theory, because whole nations simply can't migrate, that men do not originate from Africa, but from Eurasia, that history is some kind of manipulated western (Anglo-Saxon) propaganda and so on. Unbelievable what you can find on the internet.

[Lazy O]

Or in government published schoolbooks in my case

[anubis88]

Let's drop the 300 discussion, since it has been done to death, but i was thinking on focusing on examples like the one i put as an example.

If we are already mentining Slavs, there's a book in my country, the tiltle being; The Etruscans were Slavs . I mean wth.... The guy tries to prove using ancient Etruscan texts, that they can be paraprhased as ancient slovenian and slavic (which doesnt exist as a written languge). He uses his translations as proof, which end up sometimes like this;

Holding a horse, you can drink wine.

Absurd. Pseudo-science sucks

[Fluvius Camillus]

On a camillan trairii.

Really.. My eyes burn on those shows. At least asterix's passable cause it's a comic.

~Jirisys ()

Triarii? Didn't they have 2nd Cent AD LS legionaires from 5th BC till 5th AD?

~Fluvius

[The_Blacksmith]

i think the most silly thing ive read wa that Africa was named after Scipio Africanus...

[Gaius Sempronius Gracchus]

"What the Romans did is, they brought order to the Barbarian chaos.." David Dimbleby shamelessly - and with a straight face - espousing the Roman version of history, handed down to us by...Roman propogandists in the BBC series Seven Ages of Britain (not to be confused with the much better, imo, Channel 4 series, Seven Ages of Britain).

[Gaius Sempronius Gracchus]

i think the most silly thing ive read wa that Africa was named after Scipio Africanus...

No.....not really? Surely not?

[antisocialmunky]

The Aeneid.

[Zarathustra Baktrios]

The Aeneid.

This is more about mythology than ancient history, antisocialmunky. I don't believe romans took it as facts, but they celebrated their own version(/copy) of Iliad and Odyssey, created this time by a roman about Rome. This is another way to see how romans used greek culture to build their own. It was a matter of entertainement and its obvious purpose is to glorified the roman society by giving it heroic and divine roots ; it's a tale.
At the same times, The Ovid's Metamorphoses had the same purpose.

[fomalhaut]

This is more about mythology than ancient history, antisocialmunky. I don't believe romans took it as facts, but they celebrated their own version(/copy) of Iliad and Odyssey, created this time by a roman about Rome. This is another way to see how romans used greek culture to build their own. It was a matter of entertainement and its obvious purpose is to glorified the roman society by giving it heroic and divine roots ; it's a tale.
At the same times, The Ovid's Metamorphoses had the same purpose.

Yes this is correct exactly. It was fabricated history as cultural background not as collection of facts. It was literally state created propaganda (Augustus was Virgils patron i believe) with a purpose to give the same sense of solidarity to the Romans as the Hellenes had for 800 years.