Findings from a 6,500-year-old ceremonial site in northwest England, supports ancient Greek explorer Pytheas' account of Britons as "the painted people."Credit: Twitter / Oxford Archaeology
Findings from a 6,500-year-old ceremonial site in northwest England, supports ancient Greek explorer Pytheas' account of Britons as "the painted people."Credit: Twitter / Oxford Archaeology
“Sadly, his original writings, titled On The Ocean, did not survive...”
I had to look it up, but the book was destroyed in the library at Alexandria, as I suspected.
I forget the number of years folks think that fire set humanity back in terms of knowledge, inventions, etc. Looked it up - lots of disagreements. Some say 1000 years, others say not much was lost.
I did see one statement I liked.
“You know you’re a fan of history when thinking about the Great Library of Alexandria still makes you upset.”
"Tell me, O Muse, of the people of poor oral hygiene..."
Regards,
Great stuff!
Thought the Brits preferred blue body paint...
Not a huge etymological leap from “Pretani” to “Briton”
Lionel Scott, Pytheas of Massalia: texts, translation, and commentary. Routledge classical translations. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xxii, 206. ISBN 9781032019987 $160.00. One hundred sixty smackers for a 200 page book indicates the publishers expect a sale of less than 3,000 volumes.
So many assumptions implicit in the article.
Was there an English Channel back then? Or was England connected to the mainland at that time?
How much conversation was Pytheas able to actually have with the natives/locals?
And it seems like temperatures were much warmer during that time.
