Meanwhile 80% of written sources on Roman history are Greek...
>>18536425writes write history is cope said by nazi apologists has a way to try and defelect.
>>18536425The Greeks were half the empire and were anything but oppressed under Roman rule. Even before the empire was split in two if you were a half decent orator you could get a lucrative job teaching Greek and rhetoric to a bunch of Roman idiots who would assume you are philosopher genius just because you're Greek.
>>18536425History is the collection and ordering and study of records from the past. It is not cast in stone like a myth, it evolves, gets corrected, corrupted by random events, decay, can be reasonably assumed by statistics.We assume that there are undiscovered works and civilizations based on our current records, despite having no evidence for it... In a sense, "rewriting history" seems like pursuit that is doomed to fail.
>>18536425greeks were anything but losers, at least not to the extent of carthagethe romans respected the greeks, absorbed some aspects of them, and in turn, the greeks became romanized and the byzantine empire was the last remnant of ancient rome
>>18536425The actual people who write history are the writers. Prove me wrong.
>>18536425History is written by whoever controls the narrative. This is often the winner, but not always the case (such as the historical memory surrounding the Vietnam War being Americentric)
>>18536425Would you prefer us to get our Roman history from the arm tattoos of aging hipsters?
>>18536425Sexy granny
>>18536427Nazi apologists like Winston Churchill or George Orwell.
