Quote Originally Posted by DeathFinger View Post
There's a lot - a lot of stupid things written about history.
Some wikipedia articles are really bad, like some internet articles are too, but knowing the guys who posts them it cannot really be took into consideration. What's worse is when they are specialists. I took some weeks ago a book of the ancient marxists' universities, you know when they wanted to show that Parthians vs Romans was a classes war (and I better not to speak about Germanian invasions on this subject). Shame that I don't remember the book's title btw.

But to me the worse is the "New Chronology" thing. See the wikipedia article on this, it's enough. for example, a certain Dr. Ranajit Pal had argues that Diodotos of Bactria and Ašoka were the same.... There was a thread on this btw ^^
Yeah, i've heard about that. Imagine how shocked i was when i learned Kasparov was a supporter of this, since i'm very fond of chess... That's when he stopped being my idol

Interesting; i didn't know Jesus = Caesar

I've already written about this a few years back, but since we are mentioning professors; Our ex middle-ages proffesor told the whole class, that if we want to know how a typical battle of Romans vs Barbarians was fought, we should just watch the first battle in Gladiator, as it is 100% correct. LOL