Rome Will Kick Your Butt--TV Series

American Chronicle ^ | Oct 30, 2010 | Bruce Deitrick Price

[MrsEmmaPeel]

You will love him, I guarantee it. His observations were astonishing - "the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" is a personal favorite of mine. Many an hour was spent in hand with the original Latin with such phrases as: "odio humani generis" trying the weave sense out of it all.

[ApplegateRanch]

ca 1967, Barf Area, CA.

I also had a female history lecturer whose class I quickly dropped, when she started in on day one teaching 'herstory' instead of history.

I NEVER had a Conservative for history; the best I could do was a couple of Centrists. That was within the framework of two semesters of U.S. history; one of California History; one semester of Far East Asian History, ancient through 18th Century; one semester of World history, following a semester of Western Civ.

Same school: I also bailed out of an introductory astronomy class, as that prof wanted to spend the entire semester teaching Ptolemaic astronomy, "as a groundwork of how/why Copernican astronomy (to be taught in his second semester classes) was superior, and what the problems with the Ptolemaic System were that lead to the Copernican System's development."

The math, physical science, and English departments were pretty much unaffected, but the social sciences & other humanities were rife with fairly new Berkeley grads at the podiums.

The political and sociological imperatives (later becoming political correctness) within the Anthropology department changed my mind about pursuing a degree in archeology.

I really find it distasteful to be falsely accused of being an uneducated ignoramus and poseur, simply because my experience is different from someone else's.