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

[vartan]

ASM the WS reference was off-topic and not at all to do with history or WS as a historical lens. Sorry you misunderstood.

P.S. WS is not quote "men oppressed women" and "there must be a feminized reading of everything". Just to clear things up.

[M to the A]

I have family in Macedonia so I've read my fair share of funny stuff on those "truth" websites from Macedonians, Greeks and Albanians.

[antisocialmunky]

ASM the WS reference was off-topic and not at all to do with history or WS as a historical lens. Sorry you misunderstood.

P.S. WS is not quote "men oppressed women" and "there must be a feminized reading of everything". Just to clear things up.

Meh, maybe its just the fact that my ancient mythology professor liked to fall back on Feminist and Homosexual interpretations of primary sources instead of just trying to look at them in an actual historical context.

[fomalhaut]

those narrow lenses can help us find new understandings on a subject. not to say they are the end all but they all contribute to a whole

[Arthur, king of the Britons]

The 'Rome: Total War' design documents.

[Shade]

I have a hypothesis that Rome: Total War takes place in some sort of alternate history timeline.

- Massive and pointless wars during the early Iron Age lead to many of the cultures of northern Europe being devasted, and creating a few powerful tribes that have lost much of their oral and written history.
- Mysticism and cults are much more prevalent in Rome, leading to bizarre techniques and technologies.
- Ptolemy I Soter suffered a severe case of malaria, ultimately becoming brain damaged during a coma. Believing himself to be the reincarnation of the ancient Egyptian rulers, he set about recreating it as much as possible.

I'm sure that there is more to it.

[antisocialmunky]

You could go on for days about RTW. :p

[antisocialmunky]

those narrow lenses can help us find new understandings on a subject. not to say they are the end all but they all contribute to a whole

ME:

That being said, these narrow lense studies may be used to tease out something interesting and true but nto so dramatic if taken with a variety of other narrow lenses as well as the original context.

Read what I posted first: Useful for looking at certain aspects of history as part of the whole but not useful for teaching it as history in isolation.