Sunday, January 12, 2020

People Clutching their Pearls on Twitter


Y'all know I did classics -- Greek and Roman literature, studying Greek and Latin, writing my dissertation on Greek poetry of the first century A.D. -- so you know how much I like Greek and Roman literature.

On the other hand, I have no delusions about (a) how terrible the Romans actually were as a culture and (2) how we have over-valued them in constructing our own culture. (You can blame the British for that one.)

So watching a herd of Twitterites have tantrums when confronted with a simple fact (the Mongols were a bigger empire and better warriors than Rome and Romans; and furthermore, may well have had more influence on world culture) IDK, it cracks me up.

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